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Police Misconduct Update: Front Burner Topics Under § 1983

Stay up to date on the latest laws and events pertaining to police misconduct and civil liability in order to add additional resources to your practice.

Police misconduct is the sizzling hot topic of the day. Whether you sue or defend law enforcement, or want to add a new practice area, you need to be up-to-the-minute. This course will get you covered in the latest in law enforcement liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. From the newest Supreme Court cases to national trends in use of deadly force; qualified immunity for individual officers; municipal liability for failures in hiring, training, supervision and discipline; First Amendment rights and use of video evidence; evaluation of high-profile death cases; and effect of the legalization of marijuana, a leading practitioner and authority gives you all this in this material to use in your practice.

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Supreme Court Update

What Statistics Reveal on Police Use of Force

National Police Reform Movement

Consensus Policies on Use of Force, and Their Admissibility

Choke Holds, Positional Asphyxia: I Can't Breathe Phenomenon

Failure to Intervene, Breaks in the Blue Wall

Stepped-up Attacks on the Qualified Immunity Defense From the Left and Even the Right

Municipal Liability, Failure to Train on De-Escalation, Crisis Intervention and Others

Citizen Videos, Protests and First Amendment; Body Worn Camera Evidence

Damages for Wrongful Death and Survival: Should State or Federal Law Control?

Searches and Arrests for Marijuana

Facial Recognition Technology Controversy

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This course was last revised on September 21, 2020.

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  • CA MCLE 1.5
     
  • Lorman Education Services is a State Bar of California approved MCLE sponsor and this course qualifies for 1.5 CLE hours of participatory credit.
     

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Wayne C. Beyer, Esq.

Wayne C. Beyer, Esq.

  • Trial lawyer, author, presenter, former federal official and administrative appeals judge
  • Lead counsel in over 300 police misconduct and corrections cases, including dozens of jury trials, involving Fourth Amendment excessive force, false arrest, illegal search, fatal shootings, positional asphyxia, cell suicide, pursuits, failure to render medical assistance, failure to protect, First Amendment, malicious prosecution, and wrongful conviction
  • Assistant corporation counsel and assistant attorney general for the District of Columbia and outside counsel to New Hampshire’s Property and Liability Insurance Trust
  • Presenter at national programs for Georgetown University Law Center, Defense Research Institute, the American Bar Association, the Federal Judicial Center for District and Magistrate Judges, and many webinars
  • Author of law review and magazine articles on police misconduct, including the 1,540-page treatise and handbook, “Police Misconduct: A Practitioner’s Guide to Section 1983,” available from Juris Publishing at http://www.jurispub.com/ Bookstore/United-States/Police-Misconduct.html
  • Member of New Hampshire and D.C. Bars, International Association of Chiefs of Police, National Sheriffs Association, and Police Executive Research Forum
  • Formerly associate and partner at prominent New Hampshire law firms; chief of staff U.S. General Services Administration; and rendered 750 final decisions on employment and labor issues for the executive branch of the United States government as member, chairman, chief judge, U.S. Department of Labor Administrative Review Board and member Federal Labor Relations Authority
  • Degrees from Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and Georgetown University Law Center
  • Can be contacted at 603-356-5106 or [email protected]
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