Legal Opinion
Crislip v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Virginia
Decided October 30, 2001No. 2276003PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AGEE, Judge.
Harold D. Crislip (Crislip) was convicted in a Rockingham County Circuit Court bench trial on two counts of assaulting a police officer, in violation of Code § 18.2-57(0, and sentenced to serve a term of six months incarceration on each conviction. He contends his actions were reasonable and permissible because he was the subject of an illegal arrest. We disagree and affirm the convictions.
I. BACKGROUND
On April 7, 2000, at 3:00 a.m., Sergeant M.E. Baylor of the Rockingham County Sheriffs Office responded to a possible domestic dispute at the Crislip residence, which is a mobile…
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