09-21-2016, 02:02 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Sonoma County, CA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by donquixote99
This is legal (at least in some jurisdictions), but you'd better be able to show you were resisting not unlawful arrest, but the unlawful threat of serious bodily harm. And in the case of police officers, with so many legal assumptions on their side, that 'unlawful threat' part can be very tough indeed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plummer_v._State |
It can be impossible.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...917-story.html
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