The Fourth Amendment is the floor. Article 2, Section 10 is the rule.
Who it's for: patrol officers, detectives, deputies, and anyone who writes a warrant or makes a warrantless entry in New Mexico.
What goes wrong without it: an officer applies the federal rule he learned in the academy, New Mexico courts apply a stricter one, and the evidence is gone. The defendant walks. The officer gets a reputation with the DA's office he does not want.
What you learn:
Why New Mexico courts read Article 2, Section 10 differently than the Fourth Amendment, and when that matters to you
Every warrant exception, the New Mexico version: consent, exigency, automobile, inventory, plain view, search incident to arrest, and where each one is eroding
Real New Mexico cases, broken down to what the officer did right and what the court dinged him for
When to get a warrant, and how to get one fast
What you walk away with: you stop guessing at the street and start knowing which exception you are standing on, and why it will hold up.
Format: full day. On site or virtual. NMDPS approved.
The decision takes seconds. The lawsuit takes years.
Who it's for: every sworn officer, and every supervisor who signs off on a use of force report.
What goes wrong without it: an officer knows Graham v. Connor by name and cannot explain what it means at 2 a.m. The force was probably reasonable. The report says otherwise. Now it's a civil rights lawsuit, an IA case, or worse, a criminal referral.
What you learn:
Graham, Garner, and Scott v. Harris, in plain language and applied to New Mexico cases
Section 1983 and the New Mexico Civil Rights Act, what each one exposes you to, and how they differ
The duty to intervene and what it requires of you and your partner
Reality based training: scenarios that put the law under stress, so you learn to apply it, not recite it
What you walk away with: you know where the line is, you know how to articulate why you were on the right side of it, and your reports say so.
Format: full day classroom, with a reality based training option. On site or virtual for the classroom portion.
Officer Prosecutor. Trial advocacy for officers who prosecute their own cases. One or two days.
Courtroom Testimony. How to be the credible witness the jury believes, and how to survive cross.
Drafting Search Warrants. Four hours. You leave with a warrant template you wrote yourself.
Fourth Amendment Search & Seizure. The federal course, for agencies outside New Mexico.
AI in Policing. Eight hours. I teach your officers who are already using AI how to use it to work faster and smarter, without creating legal, ethical, or credibility problems for themselves or their agency.
Instructor Development. Eight hours. Turn your agency's experienced instructors into better teachers by giving them practical tools to deliver training officers will understand, remember, and use in the field.
Every course can be customized for your department.
On site or virtual
On site, I come to your agency, your academy, or your regional training center. Virtual, your officers train from wherever they are. Either way, it's interactive. No death by PowerPoint.
