State v. Montgomery

*761Andersen, C.J.

(dissenting)—I dissent from that portion of the majority opinion which holds that the defendant's arrest was improper. I would affirm the defendant's conviction for possession of the controlled substance which was found on him after his arrest.

The defendant in this case leveled a gratuitous 5- to 10-minute barrage of screamed obscenities at Seattle police officers. This did not occur at midday in a family neighborhood, but at night in a downtown night life section of a large city where, as an officer testified, they must necessarily assume that every person, adult or juvenile,…