People v. Vasquez

We granted leave to consider whether defendant’s alleged conduct of lying to a police officer about his name and age, constituted an “obstruction” within the meaning of Michigan’s “resisting and obstructing” statute. MCL 750.479. Michigan’s “resisting and obstructing” statute does not proscribe any manner of interference with a *86police officer, and it also does not proscribe only conduct that poses a threat to the safety of police officers; rather, it proscribes threatened, either expressly or impliedly, physical interference and actual physical interference with a police officer. Therefore,…