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Taylor v. State

Citations

  • 740 So. 2d 89
  • 1999 WL 503462

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that if a defendant is charged under section 843.01 with resisting or opposing an officer with violence in the performance of some duty—other than an arrest—the state must prove that the officer was engaged in a lawful duty
  • reversing convictions for battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting an officer with violence because the evidence was insufficient to support a finding that the officer was engaged in a lawful duty
  • reversing convictions for resisting with violence and battery of a law enforcement officer because the evidence was insufficient to support a finding that the officer was engaged in a lawful duty at the time of the alleged offenses
  • battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting an officer with violencé reversed where state failed to specifically charge that the defendant was resisting an arrest and the state could not otherwise justify the officer’s intrusion into the defendant’s home

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Judges: Padovano

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