District Court of Appeal of Florida

In order to commit the crime of resisting an officer without violence, a defendant must have know that the individuals he resisted were officers. Defendant's conviction for resisting an officer without violence is reversed in part where a failure to instruct the jury on the knowledge element required reversal of the conviction and a remand for new trial.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/18/2006
• Published 08/18/2006

Judges

• SAWAYA, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and Thomas J. Lukashow, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Rebecca Rock McGuigan, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.