State v. King

¶1 We must decide whether a police officer had the authority to arrest a motorcyclist for reckless driving outside the officer’s jurisdiction and whether the officer later offered improper opinion testimony at trial. Tyler Sherwood King was riding his motorcycle southbound on Interstate 5 (1-5), north of the Vancouver, Washington, city limits, when Vancouver police officer Jeff Starks spotted him. Starks was on his way to work, driving an unmarked police car outside his department’s jurisdiction. According to the officer, King stood on his motorcycle’s foot pegs for three to four seconds…