Court Opinion

ID: 9510368
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 21:55:30.580525+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:07:59.768917
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE LEAPHART,
specially concurring.
¶39 I concur in the result reached by the Court. I would reach the same result solely on the basis of § 46-5-228(2), MCA, which allows persons serving search warrants to reasonably detain and search any person who is on the premises being searched at the time of the search for purposes of self-protection. As the Court recognizes, when Dawson entered the motel room during the execution of the search warrant, he was on the premises at the time of the search and he was thus subject to temporary detention and to a search for the “self-protection” of the officers at the scene. Having relied on this statutory authority, I would not address the issues of particularized suspicion or the need for Miranda warnings.