Criminal Law : Jury Instructions – Self Defense – Resisting Arrest
State v. Plunkett (MLW No. 68758/Case No. SD33622 – 13 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Lynch, J.)
Criminal Law : Instruction – Resisting Arrest – ‘Physical Interference’
State v. Wooten (MLW No. 68662/Case No. ED101573 – 4 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Dowd, J.)
Criminal Law : Resisting Arrest – Sufficiency Of Evidence – Mental State
State v. Marshall (MLW No. 68228/Case No. SD33384 – 5 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Scott, J.)
Criminal Law : Resisting Arrest – Sufficiency Of Evidence – Mental State
State v. Marshall (MLW No. 68228/Case No. SD33384 – 5 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Scott, J.)
Criminal Law : Resisting Arrest – Sufficiency Of Evidence
State v. Thomas (MLW No. 681078/Case No. WD77564 – 7 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Witt, J.)
Criminal Law : Resisting Arrest – Instructional Error – Sufficiency Of Evidence
State v. Dudley (MLW No. 67690/Case No. ED100905 – 8 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Mooney, J.)
Criminal Law : Resisting Arrest – Instruction – Physical Interference
State v. Meeks (MLW No. 66253/Case No. ED99727 – 11 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Dowd Jr., J.)
Criminal Law : Resisting Arrest – Sufficiency Of Evidence
State v. Sonnier (MLW No. 66010/Case No. ED98875 – 7 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Van Amburg, J.)
Criminal Law: Resisting Arrest – Sufficiency Of Evidence – Hearsay
State v. Reed (MLW No. 61793/Case No. ED93743 – 11 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Gaertner Jr., J.)
Criminal Law: Resisting Arrest – Double Jeopardy – Lesser-Included Offense
State v. Daws (MLW No. 60693/Case No. SC90444 – 6 pages) Where a defendant, who was arrested following a police chase, pleaded guilty to charges of failing to yield to […]
UPDATED: After three years of hoopla, woman pleads guilty to misdemeanors
Nearly three years after an incident that started with a dispute in a Wal-Mart checkout line, Heather Ellis reached a plea agreement Friday evening after jurors had been considering her case for about two and a half hours.
Criminal Law: Sentencing – Enhancements – Resisting Arrest
U.S. v. Hill (MLW No. 59796/Case No. 08-3748 – 10 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Melloy, J.) Where a district court found that a defendant tried to draw […]
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