Opinion ID: 883484
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Heading: failure to arrest

Text: In his motion to suppress before the Powder River County Justice Court, Williams contended that Officer Krausz of the Miles City Police Department did not have jurisdiction to obtain a BAC test because his accident had not occurred within the city limits or within five miles thereof, as required by § 7-32-4301, MCA. Williams also contended that there was not probable cause to make a warrantless arrest. Williams filed the identical motion and supporting brief in District Court. On appeal, Williams raises a third argument for suppression of the blood test. Williams now asserts that the BAC test should have been suppressed because he was never placed under arrest by Krausz, as required by the implied consent law. He asserts that the mere act of reading the implied consent advisory form did not constitute an arrest pursuant to Montana's warrantless arrest statutes contained in Title 46, Chapter 6, Part 3, MCA, and therefore, that the implied consent law was inapplicable. We decline to hear Williams's failure to arrest argument because he did not raise it at the district court level. Although the State referred to the matter of Williams's arrest in its brief to the District Court, Williams had not placed his arrest at issue, and the District Court did not address that question when it denied Williams's motion. Williams's failure to include this issue as a basis for his motion to suppress before the District Court bars him from raising it on appeal. State v. Redfern (1987), 228 Mont. 311, 313, 741 P.2d 1339, 1340-41. See also § 46-20-104(2), MCA.