How have courts treated police volunteer rescuers in cases involving mistaken identity?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Banks, E061755 (Cal. App. 2016):

4. Both victims believed the man to be a police officer since he was in a marked police vehicle. However, as he testified later, the individual was actually a police volunteer.

5. Miranda v. Arizona (1966) 384 U.S. 436.

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