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Jones v. State

Citations

  • 570 So. 2d 433
  • 1990 WL 183822

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that an unlawful detention does not justify a battery on the officer
  • stating that a founded suspicion is a suspicion with a factual foundation in the circumstances seen by the officer and interpreted in light of the officer's knowledge
  • stating that a founded suspicion is a suspicion with a factual foundation in the circumstances seen by the officer and interpreted in light of the officer’s knowledge
  • affirming defendant's conviction for battery on law enforcement officer even though officer's initial stop and detention of defendant was illegal
  • a person is not justified in using force to resist an arrest where it is reasonably believed that the person making the arrest is a law enforcement officer; this is true even if the arrest is technically illegal
  • no technically illegal arrest in Roux —agent simply walked toward Roux

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Dauksch

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