32 Md. App. 90 - Rodgers v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. ““In the case at bar, neither the appellant nor the police officers saw the warrant before the arrest. Clearly, the appellant did not resist the arrest because he believed the warrant was defective. To permit his conviction to turn upon whether in hindsight the warrant is adjudicated defective, a highly complex procedure in itself, when he could not have known it was defective is to permit an uninformed street decision by an accused to take the place of a decision by the appointed and informed adjudicative officers of the law. Such a procedure cannot be sanctioned at the cost of violent injury to police officers fulfilling the command of a warrant.” Rodgers v. State, 32 Md.App. 90 , 359 A.2d 122, 126 (1976).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Roberts v. State

2. ““Otherwise stated, an individual may not lawfully use force to resist an arrest where he has been advised by authorized police officers that a warrant for his arrest has been duly issued and that, pursuant to the command of the warrant, the officers are endeavoring to effect his arrest, even though it is later determined at a judicial hearing the warrant was defective. We find no error in the trial judge's refusal to grant the appellant's motion for judgment of acquittal.” Rodgers v, State, supra, at 97.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rodgers v. State