Patrizi v. State

The defendant below appeals her convictions of both resisting an officer without violence and resisting a different officer with violence. She asserts that these convictions constitute double jeopardy and thus fundamental error. In addition, she challenges her legal, bottom-of-range guidelines sentence, imposed after the trial court denied her request for a downward departure. For the following reasons, the convictions and sentence are affirmed.

After a traffic stop, Appellant was arrested and transported to the police station by Officer Michael Henagan. When Officer Henagan parked in the…