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Ken Wallentine

Law Enforcement and the Law

Ken Wallentine is the chief of the West Jordan (Utah) Police Department and former chief of law enforcement for the Utah Attorney General. He has served over four decades in public safety, is a legal expert and editor of Xiphos, a monthly national criminal procedure newsletter. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for the Prevention of In-Custody Death and serves as a use of force consultant in state and federal criminal and civil litigation across the nation.

LATEST ARTICLES
The court denies law enforcement officers qualified immunity for the arrest of a local journalist in a recent case
The “mosaic theory” will certainly become a more common argument advanced by defendants as police expand the use of technology in gathering evidence
The appellate court analyzes a recent case in light of the state-created danger doctrine to decide if the officer should be liable
The appellate court reviews a case involving a vehicle containment technique and determines the tactic constitutes a seizure
Officers were accused of extending a traffic stop to conduct a K-9 sniff in this recent case
If there is any clearly established Supreme Court precedent, it is that the Court believes lower courts continue to misconstrue Supreme Court direction on qualified immunity
Is the threshold of a storage unit within curtilage under the Fourth Amendment? The court decides in this recent case
A recent case follows the events of a traffic stop in which police were demanding identification from a subject who refused
The court rules on an officer’s warrantless search of the subject’s vehicle during the course of a traffic stop
A defendant argues that because an officer wrote a citation by hand, it improperly extended a traffic stop