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Busch v. State

Citations

  • 426 A.2d 954
  • 289 Md. 669
  • 1981 Md. LEXIS 199

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that officers were entitled to judgment as a matter of law on claims of battery, false imprisonment, and false arrest where they had legal justification to arrest the plaintiff
  • holding that an amendment to the charging document that substituted the offense of resisting arrest for the offense of resisting, obstructing, or hindering an officer in the performance of his duties required proof of an act not originally charged (an arrest
  • “After an offense has been charged, another offense that requires proof of a different or additional act may not be substituted for the offense originally charged”
  • “the offense of resisting arrest ordinarily requires resistance to a lawful arrest made by an officer of the law in the performance of his official duties”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Murphy, Smith, Digges, Eldridge, Cole, Davidson, Rodowsky

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