"Merely Correctly Advising ... Daughter of Her Constitutional Rights Did Not Constitute ... [Criminal O]bstruction ... of a Governmental Function"

"Merely Correctly Advising ... Daughter of Her Constitutional Rights Did Not Constitute ... [Criminal O]bstruction ... of a Governmental Function"

From today's decision in Keeton v. State, written by Arkansas Court of Appeals Judge Cindy Grace Thyer, joined by Judges Brandon Harrison and Casey Tucker: Appellant Doralee Keeton was found guilty by a Dallas County jury of one count of obstructing governmental operations, a Class C misdemeanor, and sentenced to pay a $500 fine…. Police had come to the home of Doralee's daughter, Madeline, to arrest her for possession of methamphetamine, but Ke…