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In reply to the discussion: Out of control police officer arrests nurse for refusing to draw blood of unconscious victim. [View all]Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)The change in law isn't a recent one, its last year, and he should have known about it.
Even if he had been right, you don't handle it like that and you don't lose your temper like that. If the nurse was wrong you find another, get your blood, and later come back with a summons if you really want to push the issue of obstruction. But she wasn't wrong, so that just doubles down on it.
How is this department updating its people on changes to the law and changes to case law like this? We got newsletters every two weeks from the DA's office that covered changes to the law like those and every 6 months we hand mandatory in-service training with the DA or a lawyer from the state Justice Academy just to go over changesnin the law that were new.
One of the basic obligations when your sworn to uphold the law is to know what your doing and get it right. The body of law is ever changing and even if it never changed no one person can know it all. We all had a complete copy of the NC criminal statutes in a small book with us at all times and file #1 was always if you are not sure look that shit up. His not being aware of SCOTUS case law that affected his duties directly that's from last year shows he and his department deeply negligent in that regard.