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The Law Officer?s Pocket Manual is a handy, pocket-sized, spiral-bound manual that highlights basic legal rules for quick reference and offers examples showing how those rules are applied.

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The Law Officer?s Pocket Manual is a handy, pocket-sized, spiral-bound manual that highlights basic legal rules for quick reference and offers examples showing how those rules are applied. The manual provides concise guidance based on U.S. Supreme Court rulings on constitutional law issues and other legal developments, covering arrest, search, surveillance, and other routine as well as sensitive areas of law enforcement. It includes more than 100 examples drawn from leading cases to provide guidance on how to act in a wide variety of situations.

Some new material in the 2022 Edition:

• In a unanimous ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court curbed warrantless home entries. The court said that police can?t automatically pursue fleeing misdemeanor suspects into a residence without a warrant. Whether exigent circumstances exist depends on the particular facts of each case.


• In another case, the high court ruled that when a police officer applies force to a suspect?s body with intent to restrain, this is a seizure under the Fourth Amendment.


• The Supreme Court, in a unanimous ruling, bolstered home protections. It ruled that the community caretaking exception to the Fourth Amendment?s warrant requirement doesn?t extend to the home.


• The U.S. Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, untangled some jurisdictional issues involving Native American, state, and federal enforcement officials. The court bolstered the authority of tribal police over non-American Indians traveling on public roads through reservations.


• In a pair of cases, the Court reinforced the court-made doctrine of qualified immunity. In both cases the high court said the law was not so "clearly established" as to allow litigation against the officers to move forward.


• In a civil rights case, the court sent the case back to the circuit court to determine if the suit can move forward.

Tartalomjegyzék:

I. PURPOSE AND USE OF THIS MANUAL1:1
II. THE POLICE-CITIZEN ENCOUNTER2:1
A.Police Activities That Require No Evidence of Wrongdoing2:2
1.Routine Patrol2:2
2.The Consensual Encounter2:2
3.Community Caretaking Activities2:4
4.Roadblock or Checkpoint Vehicle Stops2:4
5.Canine Sniffs2:7
B.Investigative Detention2:8
1.What You Need to Make an Investigative Detention ? Reasonable Suspicion2:8
a.Personal Observation and Information Known to Other Officers2:9
b.Tips from Informers2:10
c.Pretext Stops2:11
2.Conduct During Detention2:11
a.The Terry Stop2:12
b.The Terry Frisk2:15
c.Plain Touch Seizures2:16
d.Additional Officer Security Measures2:18
3. Detention During Execution of a Warrant2:19
4. Motor Vehicle Stops2:21
a. Occupants of Vehicles2:21
b.Duration of Motor Vehicle Stop2:22
c. Luggage in Vehicles2:23
5.Pursuit2:24
6.High Speed Chases2:25
III. IDENTIFICATIONS3:1
A.In-Person Identifications3:1
1.Right to Have Counsel Present3:1
2.On-the-Scene Showups3:2
3.Immediate Identification Demanded by a Suspect3:3
4.Identification by Witness Without Police Participation3:3
B.Photograph Identification3:3
IV. ARREST4:1
A.When an Arrest Takes Place4:1
B.What You Need to Arrest?Probable Cause4:2
1.Official Reports4:4
2.Crime Victims or Witnesses4:5
3.Reports From ?Good Citizen? Informers4:6
4.Anonymous, Paid, or Habitual Government Informers4:6
5.Automobiles4:9
6.Canine Sniffs4:9
7.Defendant?s Reputation or Past Record4:10
C.Misdemeanor Arrests4:10
D.Use of Force to Make an Arrest4:10
E.When You Should Get an Arrest Warrant4:11
F.When You Don?t Need an Arrest Warrant4:14
G.Constitutional Requirements of an Arrest Warrant4:15
H.Requirements for Execution of an Arrest Warrant4:17
I.Foreign Nationals4:20
V. SEARCH INCIDENT TO ARREST5:1
A.Automobile Searches5:2
B.Time and Place5:5
C.Plain View5:7
D.?Sweep? of Premises Where Arrest Has Been Made5:8
E.More Intrusive Searches5:9
F.Obtaining Physical Evidence from the Body of a Suspect Under Arrest5:10
G.Obtaining Physical Evidence from the Body of a Suspect Not Under Arrest5:12
VI. INTERROGATION6:1
A.When Warnings Should Be Given6:2
1.?In Custody?6:2
2. ?Interrogation?6:5
B.When Warnings Are Not Necessary6:6
C.Miranda Warnings6:10
D.When to Repeat the Warnings6:12
E.Interrogating Juveniles6:13
F.The Suspect?s Answer6:13
G.Questioning6:22
H.Belated Warnings6:24
I.Exceptions to Miranda?s Exclusionary Rule6:25
J.Dealing with a Formally Charged Suspect6:26
VII. SEARCH AND SEIZURE7:1
A.Search Without a Warrant7:3
1.Search Incident to Arrest7:3
2.Automobile Searches7:4
3.Emergencies and Exigent Circumstances7:7
4.Hot Pursuit7:9
5.Consent7:10
6.Administrative Searches7:16
7.Probation and Parole Searches7:16
B.?Searches? That Aren?t Really Searches7:17
1.Abandoned Property7:17
2.Open Fields7:18
3.Aerial Surveillance7:19
4.Public Places, ?Open View?7:20
5.?Plain View?7:20
6.?Plain Touch?7:21
7.Private Searches7:22
8.Chemical Field Tests and Blood Alcohol Tests7:23
9.Canine Sniffs7:24
C.Search with Warrant7:24
1.Probable Cause7:24
2.Constitutional Requirements for Search Warrants7:25
a.Particularity of Description7:26
b.Anticipatory Search Warrants7:27
c.Computers and Other Special Cases7:28
d.Prompt Execution of Warrant7:29
e.Unannounced Execution of Warrant7:29
f.Damaging Property7:30
g.Items Not Mentioned in Warrant7:31
h.Mistake7:31
3.Oral Applications for Search Warrants7:32
4.Media Presence7:34
D.Automobile Inventories7:34
E.Inventories of Arrestees7:35
F.Administrative Search Warrants7:36
G.Computers and Other Electronic Devices7:38
1.Warrantless Searches and Seizures7:39
2.Getting a Warrant7:41
3.Seizing Electronic Devices7:41
4.Searching Electronic Devices7:42
H.The Exclusionary Rule7:43
VIII. SURVEILLANCE AND PRESERVATION OF EVIDENCE8:1
Part I. Surveillance8:1
A.Police Surveillance Without Electronic Devices8:1
B.Electronic Surveillance of Communications8:4
C.Electronic Devices That Do Not Intercept Communications8:6
1.Pen Registers8:6
2.Tracking Devices8:6
3.Heat-Sensing Devices8:8
Part II. Preservation of Evidence8:8
IX. ENTRAPMENT9:1
X. DISABLED PERSONS10:1
A.Assessing the Condition of Persons Who Are Not Fully Conscious or Able to Communicate10:1
B.Arresting Persons with Disabilities10:2
C.Communicating with Disabled Persons10:3
XI. CASE REFERENCES11:1