State v. Willis

¶1 The State appeals from an order of the Eighteenth Judicial District Court, Gallatin County, granting the motion of Collin Jerome Willis (Willis) to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction. We reverse.

¶2 We review the following issue on appeal:

¶3 Did the District Court correctly grant Willis’s motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction*!

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

¶4 Trooper Darlene Lee of the Montana Highway Patrol responded on October 2, 2006, to an accident scene on Interstate 90 near the exit to Belgrade, Montana. A dispatcher had received a report of the accident at 3:15 a.m. Trooper Lee…