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Appellate Court of Illinois· 6/3/2004

People v. Synnott

Citations

  • 811 N.E.2d 236
  • 284 Ill. Dec. 941
  • 349 Ill. App. 3d 223
  • 2004 Ill. App. LEXIS 651

How courts have described this case

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

  • explaining that “merely refusing a police officer’s lawful order to move can constitute interference with the officer in the discharge of his or her duty”
  • determining that a complaint alleging the refusal to exit a vehicle was sufficient for obstruction charge
  • refusing officer’s requests to exit vehicle during traffic stop provided probable cause to arrest for obstructing officer
  • distinguishing Stoudt and determining that the refusal to exit a vehicle constituted obstruction
  • “it cannot be good policy to remove the only stick that the police have, other than the billy club itself, to persuade such recalcitrant individuals”
  • the defendant’s repeated refusal to comply with the officer’s order to exit his vehicle following a lawful traffic stop to investigate a DUI constituted obstruction where the behavior threatened the officer’s safety

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: O'Malley, Bowman, Grometer

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24 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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Other cases named People v. Synnott

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