Commonwealth v. McDonald

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• concluding evidence sufficient for conviction of resisting arrest where multiple officers needed to use taser to arrest appellant
• concluding evidence was sufficient for resisting arrest where multiple officers needed to use a Taser to arrest defendant
• holding evidence that defendant ran from police and refused to submit to their authority was sufficient to sustain conviction of resisting arrest because police were required to use substantial force to overcome his resistance
• holding the evidence was sufficient to sustain a conviction for resisting arrest where defendant tried to flee the scene; it took multiple police, officers to hold him down; defendant kept trying to push up; and police had difficulty handcuffing him
• sustaining conviction where defendant refused to comply with police when they attempted to handcuff him, and police officers tased him after threatening to taser him if he did not comply
• finding sufficiency of the evidence claim waived for failure to cite pertinent case law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Samuel
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-10-17· cited 335×
• Schemberg v. Smicherko
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-02-11· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. QUEL
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-08-23· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Gonzalez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-03-11· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Crosby, J., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-01-22