If a person has knowledge, or by the exercise of reasonable care, should have knowledge, that he is being arrested by a peace officer, it is the duty of such person to refrain from using force or any weapon to resist such arrest.
Cal. Penal Code § 834a
Arrest, by Whom and How Made
Applied in 35 court decisions — leading case 1 Cal. 3d 444 - People v. Hood (1969)
Most recently applied in Glenn v. State (October 2020)
Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 2147.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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