Court Opinion

ID: 9854803
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 06:14:18.605792+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:23:25.247637
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Collins, J.,
concurring:
I concur with the holding of the majority opinion, but for a different reason on the point dealing with the arrest. Officer McHale testified appellant was arrested as *338a disorderly person, a misdemeanor. The officer had no warrant, but because the offense was committed in his presence he needed none. NRS 171.235(1) (a). Appellant was found guilty of the charge, was sentenced to jail, and served the time ordered. He in no way questioned the arrest nor appealed the conviction. Time for such appeal has since expired.
That arrest being valid, any reasonable search incident thereto would be valid. Agnello v. United States, 269 U.S. 20, 30, 46 S.Ct. 4, 70 L.Ed. 145 (1925); Carroll v. United States, 267 U.S. 132, 158, 45 S.Ct. 280, 69 L.Ed. 543 (1925); Weeks v. United States, 232 U.S. 383, 392, 34 S.Ct. 341, 58 L.Ed. 652 (1914).
If arrest for the misdemeanor was valid, we do not need to speculate about probable cause to support his arrest without a warrant on the felony charge. It was the arrest for the misdemeanor which brought about the search which produced the evidence to support the felony conviction. The arrest for the misdemeanor was certainly validated in all legal respects when appellant was found guilty of the very charge for which he was arrested, served his time, took no appeal, nor otherwise attacked the judgment of conviction.