Legal Opinion
State v. Siggers
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided June 11, 1986No. 18065-KWPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARVIN, Judge.
We granted a writ to review the correctness of defendant’s convictions of resisting an officer and of battery of a police officer. LRS 14:34.2, 108. We find that the State did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant committed a battery on the officers and that defendant’s intentional resistance of the officers was in response to the unlawful restraint (arrest) and was not criminal conduct defined by LRS 14:108. Accordingly, we reverse the convictions and discharge defendant.
FACTS
We review the evidence most favorably in support of the prosecution, recognizing that it…
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