Matchniff v. Great Northwest Insurance Co.

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• concluding that the prohibited conduct is “limit[ed] to ‘(1) violent or physical interference, [and] (2) other acts which are unlawful independently of the purpose to obstruct the government’”
• concluding that merely refusing to provide information an officer requested, which may “have in a real sense obstructed the [officer] from preparing his [incident] report,” did not qualify as obstruction absent any “physical interference”
• holding the defendant did not commit the offense of obstruction under N.J.S.A. 2C:29-1(a) by refusing to supply information required by a state trooper to complete a report

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).