People v. Berardi

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing conviction where defendant had refused to leave private office space in public building and instead had argued that he had authority to be there; dispute lasted only a short time and defendant then complied with officer’s request
• reversing conviction for obstruction because the defendant’s “refusal to leave and his statement that he would have to be arrested were based on his belief that he had a legal right to be present”
• where the defendant refused to adhere to the officers’ request to leave an area was initially argumentative, the conviction for obstruction was reversed
• refused officer’s order to leave office building and kept arguing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).