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Missouri 2024 Lesson Summaries

2024 Lesson 22: Caselaw Update

Legal

Release Date:

8/1/2024

This lesson addresses recent court decisions providing guidance to law enforcement officers regarding:

  1. What facts provide exigent circumstances that will justify an officer entering a home without a warrant to check on unattended children.

  2. Whether a motel manager finding drugs inside a motel room can justify officers entering and searching the room without a warrant.

  3. Whether an officer can be liable for failing to include exculpatory information in a warrant affidavit.

  4. Wha facts will support the existence of reasonable suspicion to permit an investigatory stop of an individual.

  5. Whether officers will violate a person’s First Amendment rights by requiring them to move outside a fenced-in festival area to speak.

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