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Missouri 2019-2020 Lesson Summaries
2019 Lesson 12: Legal Update
Legal
Release Date:
8/1/2019
This is an online Missouri-specific legal studies course. The lesson addresses recent court decisions providing guidance to law enforcement officers regarding:
When an officer will be liable for making a retaliatory arrest;
Whether officers must allow DWI suspects the ability to speak privately with an attorney prior to consenting to chemical testing;
Determining whether a garden on a rural property is within the curtilage of a home;
Whether officers may consider a suspect’s intoxication in deciding how much force to use to seize the suspect; and
Whether officers may obtain a warrantless blood draw from an unconscious DWI suspect
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