Sentences with phrase «resisting arrest under»

If you are convicted of resisting arrest under Penal Code 148 PC your criminal sentence can include:

Not exact matches

He was eventually arrested for suspicion of being under the influence of a controlled substance, resisting arrest, resisting or threatening an officer and violating probation.

Alisha Dexter later squirmed and resisted being placed under arrest, Vella said.

Resisting arrest will lead to harsher penalties under legislation proposed by a Queens Democrat.

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.

In theory, this could mean that under a scenario in which the police falsely arrest you, you resist, and they then severely beat you, if they could show that the beating was the result of your resisting, not the false arrest, you could be barred from suing for anything other than the cost of treating your injuries.

As a result of the events which followed the alleged parking in the crosswalk, he was also charged with offences under the Criminal Code of causing a disturbance and resisting arrest.

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.»