Amicus Brief Article

摘要

The MPPOA Legal Defense Fund (LDF) would like to update you on legal action currently being taken on your behalf in a Case of General Importance (CGI). The LDF became aware of a Constitutional challenge to Minn. Stat. §609.505 - Falsely Reporting a Crime or Falsely Reporting Police Misconduct.The statute, lobbied for by the MPPOA, was enacted in 2006. The challenged part of the statute provides as follows:Whoever informs, or causes information to be communicated to, a peace officer, whose responsibilities include investigating or reporting police misconduct, that a peace officer '. . . has committed an act of police misconduct, knowing that the information is false, is guilty of a crime .... Minn. Stat. § 609.505, subd. 2 (2006).