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citizen is a private citizen attempting to effect an | arrest or prevent the escape from arrest. |
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| | 5. Except where otherwise expressly provided, a corrections | officer, corrections supervisor or law enforcement officer in a | facility where persons are confined, pursuant to an order of a | court or as a result of an arrest, is justified in using deadly | force against such persons under the circumstances described in | subsection 2. The officer or another individual responsible for | the custody, care or treatment of those persons is justified in | using a reasonable degree of nondeadly force when and to the | extent the officer or the individual reasonably believes it | necessary to prevent any escape from custody or to enforce the | rules of the facility. |
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| | 5-A. A corrections officer, corrections supervisor or law | enforcement officer is justified in using deadly force against a | person confined in the Maine State Prison or the Maine | Correctional Institution - Warren when the officer or supervisor | reasonably believes that deadly force is necessary to prevent an | escape from custody. The officer or supervisor shall make | reasonable efforts to advise the person that if the attempt to | escape does not stop immediately, deadly force will be used. | This subsection does not authorize any corrections officer, | 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 |
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