Commonwealth v. Montoya

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a fleeing suspect created a “substantial risk of bodily injury” to officers when he ran from officers and scaled a fence abutting the precipice of a canal in dim light
• defendant created substantial risk that officers could trip or fall when he climbed fence and jumped into canal
• police effecting arrest when officers confronted defendant after chase with weapons drawn and ordered him to raise his arms and step away from set of stairs
• even where pursuing officers chose not to scale a fence and jump twenty feet into shallow water, that they did not actively subject themselves to risk did not defeat a finding of “substantial risk of bodily injury”
• listing elements of resisting arrest

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Rich v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2012-05-31· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Hart
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-02-26· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Soun
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2012-06-21· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Sylvia
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2015-05-05· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Delarosa
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2017-12-28
• Commonwealth v. Jensen
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-06-25
• Commonwealth v. Michael W. Tyson
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2024-09-30
• COMMONWEALTH v. MANOLO M., a Juvenile (And Two Companion Cases)
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2025-07-08