Sentences with phrase «make resisting arrest»

On other issues, the commissioner said he wanted to make resisting arrest a felony and called for stiffer penalties against people who post personal information about police officers.

Not exact matches

Beckwith is accused of making several threats towards arresting Deputies & for resisting arrest.

Mayor de Blasio took The Post's advice Wednesday and made a forceful public endorsement of Police Commissioner Bill Bratton's warning not to resist arrest.

Noted playwright David Auburn makes his directorial debut with The Girl in the Park, and he's infused the movie with a deliberate sensibility that generally works - although the filmmaker occasionally can't quite resist the temptation to emphasize a few melodramatic elements (ie the sequence in which Julia is arrested for hanging around a playground).

Section 270 (1) of the Criminal Code provides every one commits an offence who assaults a public officer or peace officer engaged in the execution of his duty or a person acting in aid of such an officer; assaults a person with intent to resist or prevent the lawful arrest or detention of himself or another person; or assaults a person who is engaged in the lawful execution of a process against lands or goods or in making a lawful distress or seizure, or with intent to rescue anything taken under lawful process, distress or seizure.

Whereas resisting arrest involves an attempt to prevent an officer from making an arrest, obstruction of a peace officer covers a much broader spectrum of conduct that falls under the rubric of «hindering the enforcement of the penal law or the preservation of the peace.»

Client was charged with possession for the purposes of trafficking (Heroin), dangerous driving causing bodily harm, fail to remain at accident, and resist arrest after allegedly making a serious of drug buys observed by police which then led to a high speed chase through a suburban neighbourhood.

We know only this: he made an unsignalled turn; he resisted an unjustified arrest; he defended himself in court through unmeritorious OPCA.

He did not resist arrest, and the report made no mention of any weapons.

In a study of defendants before the Magistrates Court in NSW Indigenous defendants made up 21.9 % of public order offences (for instance offensive conduct, offensive language, assault police and resist arrest).