[at-l] Arrested by Ridgerunner!

[daveh@psknet.com (Dave Hicks)]

In some States Game Wardens, Game Protectors, Natural Resource Police, etc
have far more "search and seizure" authority than regular police.

I'm no attorney, so someone else will have to explain the real technical
reasons, but it has to do with issues like rebuttable vs. irrebuttable
assumptions, "implied consent" as the result of the exercise of a
"privilege" (as apposed to a right), "probable cause" to support the belief
that the subject has exercised of a "privilege" and therefore provided
"implied consent," etc.  It is all rather like when you drive a car you have
already consented to take a breathalyzer test, when you apply for a
Government job you consent having background checks done, etc.

BTW -- entering airports, military facilities, some State, Local, and
Federal buildings, facilities (including parks, forest, the AT corridor,
etc.) often "implies consent."

Chainsaw

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>>
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  It depends on whether they are something like "an
interpretive guide" or a "game warden".  The game warden types can enforce
more laws than even the highway patrol in this state.  I'm not completely
sure of the theory or why.
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