The PEOPLE v. Sustak

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• concluding that evidence of resisting arrest was properly admitted as probative of guilt
• concluding that evidence of resisting arrest was properly admitted as probative of guilt
• the defendant fled police and entered a tavern where he drew a weapon and wounded a responding officer
• the defendant fled police and entered a tavern where he drew a weapon and wounded a responding officer
• details of defendant’s resistance of arrest are admissible as “indicative of and a measure of the consciousness of guilt”
• “It was proper to receive evidence of a separate crime in resisting arrest, and the burden falls on the defendant to show that he resisted because he did not wish to be arrested for some other reason”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).