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Eugene Volokh

"Merely Correctly Advising … Daughter of Her Constitutional Rights Did Not Constitute … [Criminal O]bstruction … of a Governmental Function"

From today's decision in Keeton v. State, written by Arkansas Court of Appeals Judge Cindy Grace Thyer, joined by Judges Brandon Harrison and Casey Tucker:

Appellant Doralee Keeton was found guilty by a Dallas County jury of one count of obstructing governmental operations, a Class C misdemeanor, and sentenced to pay a $500 fine….

Police had come to the home of Doralee's daughter, Madeline, to arrest her for possession of methamphetamine, but Keeton had apparently talked to Madeline on the phone and "told her don't answer the door. They don't have a no-knock [warrant]." (It may be that she just meant that they didn't have a warrant.) This led to Keeton being prosecuted, but the court reversed the conviction:

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