Jordan v. State

Appellant, George Lee Jordan, was found guilty of resisting arrest following a trial without a jury before Judge J. Harold Grady in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, and sentenced to nine months..Appellant argues on this appeal that he was justified in resisting arrest because his arrest was illegal, in that the police lacked probable cause to believe that he had committed any crime. He also contends that even if the arrest were legal, he was entitled, under the attendant circumstances, to have used reasonable force in resisting the police officers. The evidence disposes of his first…