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corrections supervisor or law enforcement officer who is not
employed by a state agency to use deadly force.

 
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.

 
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.

 
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:

 
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:

 
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

 
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.

 
Sec. 5. 17-A MRSA §451, sub-§3-A, as enacted by PL 1981, c. 317,
§13, is repealed.

 
Sec. 6. 17-A MRSA §452, sub-§2-A, as amended by PL 1983, c. 450, §3,
is repealed.

 
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:

 
A. Induces or otherwise causes, or attempts to induce or
cause, a witness or informant:

 
(1) To testify or inform falsely in a manner the actor
knows to be false; or


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