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corrections supervisor or law enforcement officer who is not | employed by a state agency to use deadly force. |
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| | 7. Use of force that is not justifiable under this section | in effecting an arrest does not render illegal an arrest that | is otherwise legal and the use of such unjustifiable force | does not render inadmissible anything seized incident to a | legal arrest. |
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| | 8. Nothing in this section constitutes justification for | conduct by a law enforcement officer or a private person | amounting to an offense against innocent persons whom he the | officer or private person is not seeking to arrest or retain | in custody. |
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| | Sec. 4. 17-A MRSA §210, sub-§1, as amended by PL 2001, c. 383, §11 | and affected by §156, is further amended to read: |
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| | 1. A person is guilty of terrorizing if that person in fact | communicates to any person a threat to commit or to cause to | be committed a crime of violence dangerous to human life, | against the person to whom the communication is made or | another, and the natural and probable consequence of such a | threat, whether or not such consequence in fact occurs, is: |
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| A. To place the person to whom the threat is communicated | or the person threatened in reasonable fear that the crime | will be committed. Violation of this paragraph is a Class | D crime; or |
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| B. To cause evacuation of a building, place of assembly | or facility of public transport or to cause the occupants | of a building to be moved to or required to remain in a | designated secured area. Violation of this paragraph is a | Class C crime. |
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| | Sec. 5. 17-A MRSA §451, sub-§3-A, as enacted by PL 1981, c. 317, | §13, is repealed. |
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| | Sec. 6. 17-A MRSA §452, sub-§2-A, as amended by PL 1983, c. 450, §3, | is repealed. |
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| | Sec. 7. 17-A MRSA §454, sub-§1, ķA, as amended by PL 2001, c. 383, | §63 and affected by §156, is further amended to read: |
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| A. Induces or otherwise causes, or attempts to induce or | cause, a witness or informant: |
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| (1) To testify or inform falsely in a manner the actor | knows to be false; or |
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