Canceled -Legal Tips for Police Officers

This Class has been Canceled

COURSE CONTENT: This course will provide legal guidance on many topics, so that evidence police officers obtain will be admissible at trial and the officers will be able to avoid civil liability for themselves and their agencies.  This course will discuss, review and analyze recent criminal case law as it applies to police officers.  Judge Shanes will engage the officers in real-life scenarios, applying the legal principles with them in a manner that they should then take back and use during their law enforcement duties.

Topics will include:

• Avoiding the need to give a suspect “Miranda” warning
• Using the “knock and talk” doctrine to question people
• The latest developments regarding vehicle searches
• Benefits for officers and agencies from obtaining search warrants
• How a consensual encounter differs from a person being stopped by police
• Relying upon an anonymous 911 caller to conduct a vehicle stop
• New developments in the law regarding consent searches
• Searches incident to arrest and U.S. Supreme Court decision on cell phones
• How to interview witnesses so their statements will be admissible at trial if they later change their story