State v. Williams

In State v. Crawley, 187 N.J. 440, 901 A2d 924, cert. denied, — U.S.-, 127 S.Ct. 740, 166 L.Ed.2d 563 (2006), we determined that a defendant commits the crime of obstruction if he disobeys a police command and flees from an investigatory stop — even an unconstitutional one. In this appeal, we must decide whether defendant who resisted and fled from a presumed unconstitutional investigatory stop and who was later arrested for obstruction is entitled to suppression of the handgun seized incident to his lawful arrest.1

We now hold that defendant’s resistance and flight, which amounted to…