Legal
The Legal topic page on Police1 is a must-read for any officer, at any agency, who wants to stay up-to-date on the latest news. Every trial, verdict and court decision that has to do with cops will be covered on this page.
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A trial court denied qualified immunity when SWAT officers were sued for causing PTSD to a 2-year-old child
Being told to f-off or anything similar may be evidence of poor breeding, but is also the burden of today’s public servants
The man was no stranger to the Dunkin Donuts store and often demanded discounts, flashing his badge and holstered gun
The Government Accountability Office said results of Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques were “no better than chance”
With a law banning undetectable firearms about to expire, the focus is on guns made entirely of plastic
The Instagram account “rats215" had featured affidavits and photos of victims and witnesses in criminal cases
An officer who left a drunken woman outside a locked house is not at fault for her death 45 minutes later, judge ruled
The suspect and officer got into a scuffle and the suspect tried pulling the officer’s gun from its holster
Citation will serve as temporary license plate for 10 days; state estimates over half a million vehicles are currently uninsured
Dontae Morris, who is already sentenced to life in prison for a separate murder, is on trial for the deaths of two officers
Judges ruled that an anonymous tip to police didn’t offer reasonable suspicion for officers to act on that tip
Darryn Burgess knocked a female officer unconscious and shot another cop in the leg while fighting for the officer’s gun
The husband was charged with felony possession of an electronic weapon
Judge Eliot Prescott said he will listen to the recordings, then issue a decision at a hearing scheduled for Nov. 25
Margaret Spradlin can continue with her $1.5 million lawsuit against both the county and all the individual officers at the scene when her mobile home burned on
The Harris County Sheriff’s Office announced that 21-year-old Willie Young and 18-year-old Randy Stewart were arrested Monday
Police say the violence erupted after the 16-year-old suspect attempted to rob a 20-year-old skater of his coat
Attorneys asked a federal appeals court to vacate a judge’s orders that require the police department to change its stop-and-frisk practice
A second lawsuit was filed Friday against southern NM authorities accused of illegally subjecting drug suspects to invasive body cavity searches
Undercover detective Wojciech Braszczok was charged with gang assault, criminal mischief, riot and other counts
They tortured him with a blow torch, mistakenly assuming he had money hidden in the desert.
Caro Quintero walked out of a maximum-security prison in August after the appeals court overturned his 40-year sentence
The unions representing more than 29,000 of the New York Police Department’s 35,000 members filed papers Thursday
Michael Addison was convicted of gunning down Manchester Police Officer Michael Briggs in 2006
Opinion states ‘considerable’ risk of error in identifying gang members under ban, problems with law enforcement unilaterally identifying individuals as gang members
The lawsuit alleges the officer opened fire on the teen with almost no warning after observing the teen walking with the gun
The drunk driver laughed and told the officer he left a “present” in the back seat of the cruiser
3rd Circuit Court ruling goes beyond 2012 Supreme Court decision by stating that GPS trackers require warrants, in addition to being defined as a search
The watch group will include restrictions to try to keep members from carrying guns and pursuing suspects.
Police officers who arrested James Holmes moments after the Colorado theater shootings will be able to tell jurors what he told them
