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- Title
Making Mistakes about the Law: Police Mistakes of Law between Qualified Immunity and Lenity.
- Authors
Weinberger, Lael
- Abstract
The article focuses on statutory ambiguity with a precondition to a claim of reasonable mistake in the U.S. Supreme Court's case Heien v. North Carolina on the probable cause without violating the Fourth Amendment. Topics discussed include qualified immunity and the rule of lenity, use of rule of lenity to guide the ambiguity analysis and application of rule of lenity in substantive criminal law.
- Subjects
HEIEN v. North Carolina (Supreme Court case); PROBABLE cause (Searches &; seizures); SEARCHES &; seizures (Law); QUALIFIED immunity of public officers; RULE of lenity (Law); CRIMINAL law
- Publication
University of Chicago Law Review, 2017, Vol 84, Issue 3, p1561
- ISSN
0041-9494
- Publication type
Article