NANCY A. ROBBINS, APPELLANT,

v.

STEVEN L. ROBBINS, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Phoenix v. State, 455 So. 2d 1024 (Fla. 1984)
  …than a private citizen. But because there are jurisdictional limitations on law enforcement officials’ ability to make arrests, neither should they have any greater power of arrest outside their jurisdiction than private citizens. Schacter v. State, 338 So. 2d 269 (Fla. 3d DCA 1976); State v. Crum, 323 So. 2d 673 (Fla. 3d DCA 1975). To prevent law enforcement officials from misusing the powers of their office in making a citizen’s arrest, the courts of this state have held that law enforcement officials may…
• Edwards v. State, 462 So. 2d 581 (Fla. 4th DCA 1985)
  …may arrest a person who in the citizen’s presence commits a felony or breach of the peace, or a felony having occurred, the citizen believes this person committed it. State v. Schuyler, 390 So. 2d 458, 460 (Fla. 3d DCA 1980); and Schachter v. State, 338 So. 2d 269, 270 (Fla. 3d DCA 1976). Neither Officer Ammons’ identification of himself as an off-duty law enforcement officer nor his offer to show petitioner his badge constitutes acting under color of office. See Phoenix v. State, 455 So. 2d 1024 (Fla.1984).…
• State v. Chapman, 376 So. 2d 262 (Fla. 3d DCA 1979)
  …the subject matter of the investigation must have originated in his own jurisdiction. Brenner v. State, supra. An off-duty municipal police officer outside his jurisdiction has no right of arrest other than as a private citizen. Schachter v. State, 338 So. 2d 269 (Fla.3d DCA 1976). A private person has a common law right to arrest a person who commits a felony in his presence, or to arrest a person where a felony has been committed, and where the arresting citizen has probable cause to believe, and does beli…

Authorities Cited

• Shaw v. Shaw, 334 So. 2d 13 (Fla. 1976)