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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:
What facts provide exigent circumstances that will justify an officer entering a home without a warrant to check on unattended children.
Whether a motel manager finding drugs inside a motel room can justify officers entering and searching the room without a warrant.
Whether an officer can be liable for failing to include exculpatory information in a warrant affidavit.
Wha facts will support the existence of reasonable suspicion to permit an investigatory stop of an individual.
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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