Opinion ID: 1639123
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Heading: 6(h) JUSTIFIABLE USE OF FORCE BY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER

Text: In making an arrest of a felon. § 776.05, Fla. Stat. Give if applicable. A law enforcement officer, or any person [he] [she] has summoned or directed to assist [him] [her], need not retreat from or stop efforts to make a lawful arrest because of resistance or threatened resistance to the arrest. The officer is justified in the use of any force that [he] [she] reasonably believes necessary to defend [himself] [herself] or another from bodily harm while making the arrest. That force is also justifiable when necessarily used: 1. in retaking a felon who has escaped or 2. in arresting a felon who is fleeing from justice. Force in making unlawful arrest or unlawful execution of a legal duty prohibited. § 776.051(2), Fla. Stat. Give if applicable. Use of any force by a law enforcement officer or any person summoned or directed to assist the law enforcement officer is not justified if Give if applicable. 1. the [arrest] [execution of a legal duty] is unlawful and 2. it is known by the officer or the person assisting [him] [her] to be unlawful. To prevent escape from custody. § 776.07(1), Fla. Stat. Give if applicable. A law enforcement officer or other person who has an arrested person in [his] [her] custody is justified in the use of any force that [he] [she] reasonably believes to be necessary to prevent the escape of the arrested person from custody. To prevent escape from penal institution. § 776.07(2), Fla. Stat. Give if applicable. A guard or other law enforcement officer is justified in the use of any force that [he] [she] reasonably believes to be necessary to prevent an escape from a penal institution of a person the officer reasonably believes is lawfully detained. Give if applicable. Deadly force includes, but is not limited to 1. firing a firearm in the direction of the person to be arrested, even though no intent exists to kill or inflict great bodily harm; and § 776.06(1)(a), Fla. Stat. 2. firing a firearm at a vehicle in which the person to be arrested is riding. § 776.06(1)(b), Fla. Stat. Definition. Give if applicable. A firearm is legally defined as (adapt from § 790.001(6), Fla. Stat., as required by allegations).