WHEN PRIVATE PERSON MAY MAKE ARREST.
Known as the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act
The act spans §§ 629–629 (89 sections).
Applied in 16 court decisions — leading case State v. Thompson (2019)
Most recently applied in State v. Thompson (May 2019)
(10573) RL s 5232; 1985 c 265 art 10 s 1
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
A private person may arrest another:
(1) for a public offense committed or attempted in the arresting person's presence;
(2) when the person arrested has committed a felony, although not in the arresting person's presence; or
(3) when a felony has in fact been committed, and the arresting person has reasonable cause for believing the person arrested to have committed it.
Official source: Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Minnesota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.