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About Jack Ryan, Attorney

Jack Ryan is an attorney in Rhode Island, a graduate Juris Doctorate, Cum Laude Suffolk University Law School. Jack has 20 years police experience as a police officer with the Providence Police Department, Providence, RI.Jack’s law degree and experience as a police officer gives him the unique perspective of the legal and liability issues.Jack is a former adjunct faculty member at Salve Regina University and lectures frequently throughout the United States.

U.S. Supreme Court: The Automobile Exception Does Not Permit the Warrantless Entry of a Home or its Curtilage in Order to Search a Vehicle Therein

©2018 Jack Ryan, Attorney, Legal & Liability Risk Management Institute (www.llrmi.com) In Collins v. Virginia,[1] the United States Supreme Court examined the sanctity of a home’s curtilage, [an area adjacent to the home and to which activity of home life extends] when [...]

U.S. Supreme Court Grants Qualified Immunity in Case of Woman with Mental Impairment Shot by Officer

©2018 Jack Ryan, Attorney, Legal & Liability Risk Management Institute (www.llrmi.com) The case does not give any guidance for law enforcement operations other than the indication that the law was not clearly established when this particular shooting occurred. Kisela v. Hughes, PER [...]

U.S. Supreme Court Grants Summary Judgment and Qualified Immunity to D.C. Officers in False Arrest Case

©2018 Jack Ryan, Attorney, Legal & Liability Risk Management Institute (www.llrmi.com) Unprovoked Flight, Furtive Action and Unprovoked Flight, as well as Nervous and Evasive Behavior are all factors in the Totality of Circumstances The case of Peaches and the Party In District [...]

Understanding Exculpatory Evidence and How it May Impact Convictions

©2017 Jack Ryan, Attorney, Legal & Liability Risk Management Institute (www.llrmi.com) Over the last two decades, law enforcement has become increasingly aware of how a failure to produce exculpatory evidence to a defendant facing trial may impact a conviction of the [...]

United States Supreme Court Rejects 9th Circuit Provocation Theory In Deadly Force Confrontation

©2017 Jack Ryan, Attorney, Legal & Liability Risk Management Institute (www.llrmi.com) One of the areas where there has been disagreement among the various United States Court of Appeals is how deadly force will be analyzed, particularly as it relates to what [...]

USING FORCE ON PERSONS IN MEDICAL EMERGENCIES: United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit in a Published Decision Applies New Analysis

©2017 Jack Ryan, Attorney, Legal & Liability Risk Management Institute (www.llrmi.com) Applying the Graham factors to a medical emergency “is equivalent to a baseball player entering the batter’s box with two strikes already against him.” In Estate of Corey Hill v. Miracle[i], the United [...]

U.S. SUPREME COURT TO EXAMINE PROVOCATION THEORY IN LAW ENFORCEMENT SHOOTINGS

©2017 Jack Ryan, Attorney, Legal & Liability Risk Management Institute (www.llrmi.com) Does the fact that the officer’s pre-shooting conduct, even if unconstitutional, created the need for deadly force, is the shooting unreasonable? The short version of Mendez v. Los Angeles County is that [...]

FOURTH CIRCUIT FINDS POLICE DEPARTMENT SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY UNCONSTITUTIONAL

©2017 Jack Ryan, Attorney, Legal & Liability Risk Management Institute (www.llrmi.com) In Liverman v. City of Petersburg [Virginia][1] the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reviewed the discipline of two officers from the City of Petersburg Police Department that was [...]

U.S. SUPREME COURT CLARIFIES “CLEARLY ESTABLISHED LAW” FOR QUALIFIED IMMUNITY IN DEADLY FORCE

©2017 Jack Ryan, Attorney, Legal & Liability Risk Management Institute (www.llrmi.com) In a per curiam decision the United States Supreme Court has directed the lower courts that in denying qualified immunity to officers, they must consider the particularities of the case [...]

U.S. SUPREME COURT GRANTS APPEAL IN ARREST LAWSUIT

©2017 Jack Ryan, Attorney, Legal & Liability Risk Management Institute (www.llrmi.com) In Wesby v. District of Columbia[1], the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit examined the conduct of police officers who responded to a loud party, made entry, and [...]