Salt Lake City v. Christensen

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that evidence supported a conviction of simple assault on a law-enforcement officer because when the defendant became belligerent, the officer’s role shifted from private security guard to peace officer
• “[W]hen a law enforcement officer responds to preserve law and order or to detect and deter crime, he is acting ‘within the scope of his authority as a peace officer,’ . . . even though he may be working at another job.” (quoting Utah’s assault statute)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).