OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has reinstated a man's drunken driving conviction, reversing last year's Nebraska Court of Appeals ruling that found his constitutional rights had been violated.
The state's high court on Friday found that a Wisner police officer was not wrong to stop 27-year-old Adam Woldt to gather information about someone else's possible criminal activity, then used the stop to arrest Woldt for DUI.
Woldt had argued that because the officer had no suspicion that Woldt had committed a crime when he was stopped, his constitutional right to be free of unreasonable search and seizure had been violated.
But the high court said the officer's stop of Woldt was not unreasonable and that the officer's interest in protecting public safety outweighed his interference with Woldt's individual liberty.
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