Legal Opinion
Purnell v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided June 18, 2003No. 46, Sept. Term, 2000PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBell, C.J.
The sole issue presented by this appeal is whether the appropriate unit of prosecution for the common law crime of resisting arrest is determined by the number of police officers a criminal defendant resists during an arrest or, more simply, by the arrest itself. 1
During one episode of attempting to elude police custody, Charles Purnell, the petitioner, was charged with two counts of resisting arrest: one count for each of the two officers attempting to arrest him. The petitioner was also charged, inter alia, with two counts of second degree assault, 2 again one count for each police officer.…
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