State v. Rodgers

The issue in this case is whether the defendant’s mother voluntarily consented to the entry into her home by sheriff’s deputies who arrested her son. The deputies asked the defendant’s mother whether the defendant was home and whether they could talk to him. After entering, they placed the defendant under arrest without questioning him. Although the deputies did not have a warrant to arrest the defendant, they did have probable cause for the arrest.

The defendant, Michael Paul Rodgers, was charged with one count of false imprisonment in violation of sec. 940.30, Stats.

At the preliminary…