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Colvin v. State

Citations

  • 916 N.E.2d 306
  • 2009 Ind. App. LEXIS 2437
  • 2009 WL 3805828

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  • reversing a conviction for resisting; Colvin refused to take hands out of pockets, and officers placed him on ground and handcuffed him, but Colvin did not physically resist
  • officers restrained defendant after he refused to remove his hands from his pockets but there was “no evidence that [defendant] stiffened his arms or otherwise forcibly resisted the officers”
  • defendant did not act forcibly where he refused an order to remove his hands from his pockets and had to be taken physically to the ground by an officer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Najam, Kirsch, Barnes

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