An Officer’s Reasonable Mistake of Law and Recent Court of Appeals Ruling

Published for NC Criminal Law on September 27, 2016.

The United States Supreme Court in 2014 ruled in Heien v. North Carolina, 135 S. Ct. 530 (affirming State v. Heien, 366 N.C. 271 (2012)), that an officer’s objectively reasonable mistake of law in making a stop or arrest is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment. Last week, the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in ... Read more

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