People v. Wiltse

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “it is equally well-established that a suspect’s mere flight to escape arrest does not violate” the resisting arrest statute
• reversing conviction for resisting arrest when arrestee fled, but pursuing officer was responsible for creating danger that led to injury
• reversing conviction for resisting arrest when arrestee fled, but pursuing officer was responsible for creating danger that led to injury
• reversing a resisting arrest conviction, finding that an off-duty officer created the substantial risk of injury himself when he attempted to arrest defendant after being alerted defendant was attempting to break into his vehicle
• “Merely exposing another to the risk of [serious bodily] injury is sufficient to sustain a conviction under Section 5104[; h]owever, it is equally well-established that a suspect's mere flight to escape arrest does not violate [Section] 5104.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).