Notice of intention to arrest -- Act of arrest -- Force
Applied in 16 court decisions — leading case 12 Ariz. App. 442 - State v. Vaughn (1970)
Most recently applied in 165 F. Supp. 3d 563 - Woodcock v. City of Bowling Green (February 2016)
History: Created 1962 Ky
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) The person making an arrest shall inform the person about to be arrested of the intention to arrest him, and of the offense for which he is being arrested.
(2) An arrest is made by placing the person being arrested in restraint, or by his submission to the custody of the person making the arrest. The submission shall be in the actual presence of the arrester.
(3) No unnecessary force or violence shall be used in making an arrest.
Official source: Kentucky General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Kentucky statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.