People v. Hilgenberg

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[m]ere refusal to an- swer a police officer … is not a violation of the statute”
• holding that a defendant’s refusal to open a door to allow law enforcement to enter was not an act of physical resistance to support a charge of resisting a peace officer
• finding that a mere refusal to respond to an officer’s demands, in the absence of a physical act, does not constitute resistance of a police officer
• “A complaint which charges resisting or obstructing a peace officer must sufficiently describe the physical acts which constitute the crime.”
• defendants' inaction in refusing to open door to building to permit entry of sheriff was not an act of physical resistance and would not support a charge of obstructing a peace officer
• defendants’ inaction in refusing to open door to building to permit entry of sheriff was not an act of physical resistance and would not support a charge of obstructing a peace officer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).