DeFusco v. Brophy

How courts have described this case

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• stating \the spoken word can be just as effective in impeding an officer in the discharge of his duty as if the orater [sic] had grappled with the officer\
• stating “the spoken word can be just as effective in impeding an officer in the discharge of his duty as if the orater [sic] had grappled with the officer”
• defining “obstruction” in the context of § 11-32-1, as meaning “to interpose obstacles or impediments, to hinder, impede, or in any manner intrude or prevent, and this term does not necessarily imply the employment of direct force or the exercise of direct means”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).