LD 1020
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citizen is a private citizen attempting to effect an
arrest or prevent the escape from arrest.

 
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.

 
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.

 
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


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