Brown v. State

OPINION

MANNHEIMER, Judge.

Probation Officer Shawn Davies was looking for one of his probationers, Richard Wol-ters, so that he could confront Wolters about apparent violations of probation (failure to report and use of controlled substances). Davies took up an early morning surveillance outside Wolters’s residence. He saw a man emerge from the residence and get into a cab. Thinking that this man was Wolters, Davies called for police assistance in stopping the cab.

A Fairbanks police officer stopped the cab, and Davies arrived on the scene moments later. But the passenger in the cab was not the…