NOUN
- physical efforts to oppose a lawful arrest; the resistance is classified as assault and battery upon the person of the police officer attempting to make the arrest
How To Use resisting arrest In A Sentence
- He tried to run away from the police and was charged with resisting arrest.
- Afterwards, I found myself charged with Trespassing, Resisting Arrest and Public Disturbance, and have been rocket docketed for the morning of November 4th. "Jon Taylor & Free Speech in Virginia's 7th"
- He was killed by a shotgun blast while supposedly resisting arrest.
- He was charged with resisting arrest.
- Toplis was eventually cornered by police, I believe in Cumberland, and the murderer was shot dead whilst resisting arrest.
- He was charged with violent behaviour and resisting arrest.
- Twenty of the protesters were also cited for resisting arrest.
- The rest of the known conspirators were hunted down or died while resisting arrest.
- Wilkes had stabbed Christie while resisting arrest, for which he was indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced to hang.
- The actual charge was “resisting arrest without violence,” perhaps the most abusable statute on record. Coyote Blog » 2009 » December
