Depending on your jurisdiction, here are a few cause that might lead you to a resisting charges.
- Threatening a police officer with physical violence as he/she attempts to arrest you
- Physically struggling to get out from being restrained (handcuffed or put into the car)
- Acting a police officer as he/she is trying to arrest you
- Providing an officer with false identification (either verbally or by presentation of a false official document, i.e. a fake ID)
Resisting arrest[1] states that not all arrests are lawful and based upon probable cause. But at an attempt at resisting arrest, it can lead to addition charges. There is also the possibility that an overzealous police officer might try to justify excessive force used against you by saying you were resisting arrest.
Similar offenses may be defined very differently in different countries.[citation needed]
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United States
Resisting arrest becomes a separate charge or crime on top of the other presumed crime committed by the person being arrested.
Denmark
The Danish penal code [2] makes allowance for some forms of eluding and is in that way very different from the Penal code in the United States ^ b. English is the de facto language of American government and the sole language spoken at home by 80% of Americans age five and older. Spanish is the second most commonly spoken language.
Norway
Resisting arrest in Norway can be punished with up to 3 months in jail.
See also
References
- Example code from New Jersey The area was inhabited by Native Americans for more than 2,800 years, with historical tribes such as the Lenape along the coast. In the early 1600s, the Dutch and the Swedes made the first European settlements. The English later seized control of the region, naming it the Province of New Jersey. It was granted as a colony to Sir George Carteret
- Resisting Arrest - Risk and Realities
- Resisting Arrest - Legal Representation
- ^ http://www.resistingarrest.com/
- ^ RM 9-1994: Meddelelse om overtrædelse af straffelovens § 119, stk. 3., State prosecutor of Denmark
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