Commonwealth v. Thompson

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• holding that [a] defendant’s use of even passive resistance requiring substantial force to overcome was sufficient to uphold her conviction for resisting arrest
• holding that a defendant’s use of passive resistance can be sufficient to establish the crime of resisting arrest
• concluding that the Commonwealth established the elements of disorderly conduct where appellant “willfully created a serious inconvenience at the parking garage and made unreasonable noise after the officers attempted to diffuse the situation.”
• noting that Section 5104 criminalizes resistance that requires substantial force to surmount and rejecting the defendant's claim that the defendant's \passive resistance\ did not amount to resisting arrest
• holding arrestee’s keeping her arms and legs interlocked with those of her husband, which made officers’ attempts to place her under arrest “exhausting,” amounted to “substantial force” needed to overcome resistance
• upholding Resisting Arrest conviction where defendant refused officer’s requests to place her hands -4- J-S43024-19 behind her back and interlocked her arms and legs with her husband, requiring the use of pepper spray when attempts to pry them apart failed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Finnecy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-02-18· cited 103×
• Com. v. Clemens, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-10-28· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Soto
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-12-28· cited 60×
• Schemberg v. Smicherko
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-02-11· cited 58×
• United States v. Stinson
  Third Circuit· 2010-01-14· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Crosby, J., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-01-22

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Eichinger
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-02-20· cited 275×
• Commonwealth v. Stevenson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-02-28· cited 134×
• Commonwealth v. Clark
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-10-16· cited 31×