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· 11/6/2023

Elliott Grisell and Lorri Grisell v. Shelly & Sands, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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  • finding that the “failure to understand the law by the very person charged with enforcing it is not objectively reasonable” (emphasis in original)
  • explaining that “failure to under- stand the law by the very person charged with enforcing it is not objectively reasonable”
  • finding that the \failure to understand the law by the very person charged with enforcing it is not objectively reasonable\ (emphasis in original)
  • explaining that, for purposes of an investigatory stop, “the district court must determine whether [the officer] had reasonable suspicion of a violation, not whether there was actually a violation” (emphases added)
  • agreeing with Miller, the Tenth Circuit ruled, that “failure to understand the law by the very person charged with enforcing it is not objectively reasonable”
  • noting that a mistake of law is not objectively reasonable but remanding the case for a determination by the trial court as to whether the officer’s belief that the law was violated was a reasonable mistake of fact or an impermissible mistake of law

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