HELENA — Montana’s highest court must now decide whether a Kalispell man’s constitutional rights were violated when he was arrested after trying to film a police traffic stop.

The Montana Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Sean Doman’s appeal of his conviction for obstructing a peace officer.

(Watch the video to see some of the interaction that led to this case.) Montana Supreme Court hears arguments in case about filming police

In July 2022, Doman was riding his bike through a Kalispell neighborhood when he saw Kalispell Police Department Officer Dustin Willey conducting a traffic stop. He stopped and began recording the stop with his phone. The video he took is now posted to Youtube .

When a second officer, George Minaglia, arrived on the scene, he told Doman to mov

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