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46 STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. JAVAN FOWLER -- rank: 680

... at the request of the State: fourth-degree resisting arrest, N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2(a) (count eight); third-degree hindering apprehension, N.J.S ...

docket:	a2126-10
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2013-02-08
status:	unpublished
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Document Size:	53355

47 State v. Noah Mosley -- rank: 680

... 35-7.1, and second-degree eluding a police officer, N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2(b). On December 23, 2014, before any proceedings on the ...

docket:	a_24_16
court:	NJ Supreme Court
decided:	2018-03-06
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citation:
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48 STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. VINCENT SANBORN -- rank: 675

... and the disorderly persons offense for resisting arrest, contrary to N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2(a). Sanborn also challenges his aggregate sentence of eight years ...

docket:	a1418-10
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2012-05-04
status:	unpublished
citation:
Document Size:	63212

49 STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. ADAM REED -- rank: 675

... 35-7.1 (Count Four); second-degree resisting arrest/eluding, N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2(b) (Count Five); fourth-degree resisting arrest, N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2(a)(2) (Count Six); first-degree attempted murder, N.J ... 12-1(b)(4) (Count Ten); third-degree resisting arrest, N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2(a)(3) (Count Eleven); fourth-degree possession of hollow nose ... motion." State v. Dekowski , 218 N.J. 596 , 608 (2014). N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2(b) states: Any person, while operating a motor vehicle on ...

docket:	a1074-13
court:	New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2016-02-11
status:	Published
citation:
Document Size:	60869

50 STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. T.J.D. -- rank: 673

... 12-1(b)(5)(a) (count nine); and resisting arrest, N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2(a)(3)(a) (count ten). In May 2009, the trial ...

docket:	a0041-10
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2012-10-11
status:	unpublished
citation:
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51 STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. RHUDELL C. CRUZ-SNELLING a/k/a RHUDY CRUZ, RHODELL SNELLING, RHUDELL CHARLES CRUZ-SNELLING, RHUDY C CRUZ, RHUDELL C. CRUZ, and RHODELL CRUZ -- rank: 668

... 4(a)(1) and fourth-degree resisting arrest by flight, N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2(a)(2). We affirm. Defendant raises the following issues on ... Jason Smith, the driver, pled guilty to third-degree eluding, N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2 and agreed to testify against his co-defendants after giving ... 1(b)(5)(a); fourth-degree resisting arrest by flight, N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2(a)(2); and fourth-degree criminal mischief N.J.S ... of the indictment. Co-defendant Smith pleaded guilty to eluding N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2(b). Peace was tried with defendant. A-2057-17T2 6 ... to prevent a law enforcement officer from effecting an arrest.' N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2(a). '[A] A-2057-17T2 10 citizen's duty to ... presented at trial, a jury could have found defendant violated N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2(a)(2). Defendant also asserts that certain comments made ...

docket:	a2057-17
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2020-04-21
status:	Unpublished
citation:
Document Size:	27828

52 STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. BASSEM M. ABDOLRAZEK -- rank: 666

... paragraph upon proof of a violation of subsection b. of N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2 which resulted in the death of another person. Similarly, N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2 or while operating a motor vehicle in violation of subsection ... subsection upon proof of a violation of subsection b. of N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2 or while operating a motor vehicle in violation of subsection ...

docket:	A3244-03
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2005-11-03
status:	unpublished
citation:
Document Size:	52666

53 State v. Roger Covil -- rank: 666

... 2; and fourth-degree resisting arrest by flight, contrary to N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2(a). To convict defendant of the first-degree charge, the ...

docket:	a-35-36-18
court:	NJ Supreme Court
decided:	2020-01-22
status:
citation:
Document Size:	73432

54 State of New Jersey v. Steven Brannon -- rank: 664

... the court relied on a comment by the drafters of N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2 and the “rule of lenity,” which requires courts to construe ... acts can upgrade resisting arrest to a third-degree crime. N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2 bolsters our textual conclusion. The Historical and Statutory Notes accompanying N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2 list as its source section 242.2 of the Model ... requiring substantial force to overcome the resistance.” The drafters of N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2, the New Jersey Criminal Law Revision Commission (Commission), stated an ... a second portion of the Commission’s commentary explains that N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2 expands on the MPC offense by “rejecting the MPC view ... and the justified or required responses by the public servant, N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2 reveal an overall legislative purpose to avoid physical confrontations ...

docket:	a-96-02
court:	njsupreme
decided:	2004-03-03
status:
citation:	178 N.J. 500
Document Size:	27294

55 STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. PAVAN PATEL -- rank: 662

... from his conviction of resisting arrest, a disorderly persons offense, N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2(a)(1), after a trial de novo. As the arrest ... to prevent a law enforcement officer from effecting an arrest." N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2(a)(1). The State must prove "it was defendant's ... and . . . announces his intention to arrest prior to the resistance." N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2(a); see State v. Reece , 222 N.J. 154, 173 ... the defendant resisted). The defense to resisting arrest described in N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2 is an ordinary, not affirmative defense. See State v. Moultrie ... to prevent a law enforcement officer from effecting an arrest." N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2(a)(1). Although Harper did not announce that he was ... announce[] his intention to arrest [defendant] prior to the resistance." N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2(a). We must therefore consider whether the arrest was ...

docket:	a1888-14
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2016-04-13
status:	unpublished
citation:
Document Size:	30116

56 /usr/local/share/www/libweb/collections/courts/appellate/a2552-19.opn.html -- rank: 662

... 1) and (b)(3) (count nine); fourth-degree resisting arrest, N.J.S.A. 2C:29- 2(a)(2) (count eleven); and third-degree financial facilitation of ...

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court:	NJ Superior Court Law/Chancery Division
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57 State v. Norman Jackson -- rank: 659

... 12-1(b)(5)(a); and third-degree resisting arrest, N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2(a)(3). During the five-day trial, the prosecution presented ...

docket:	A-131-10
court:	NJ Supreme Court
decided:	2012-08-13
status:
citation:	211 N.J. 394 48 A.3d 1059
Document Size:	94747

58 STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. CARON HARRIS -- rank: 657

... by a Hudson County Grand Jury with second-degree eluding, N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2(b) (count one); second-degree possession of a firearm for ... 5)(a) (counts four and five); third-degree resisting arrest, N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2(a)(3)(a) (count six); fourth-degree resisting arrest, N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2(a)(2) and second-degree possession of a weapon by ... d] a risk of death or injury to any person." N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2(b). The statute creates a permissive inference that such a ...

docket:	a3348-08
court:	superior court appellate division
decided:	2010-12-10
status:	unpublished
citation:
Document Size:	45543

59 STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. ADRIAN C. HICKEN -- rank: 657

... The indictment also charged defendant alone with second-degree eluding, N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2(b) (count twenty-one); second-degree aggravated assault, N.J ... b)(6) (count twenty-two); and fourth-degree resisting arrest, N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2(a)(2) (count twenty-three). 4 At his ensuing trial ...

docket:	a3675-13
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2017-03-06
status:	unpublished
citation:
Document Size:	66391

60 State v. Bunch -- rank: 657

... at 247. Finding little guidance in the legislative history of N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2, the court "invoke[d] the doctrine requiring strict construction against ... is clear when read in conjunction with other parts of N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2. That statute is divided into two subsections. The first, subsection ... 29-2a (emphasis added).] Although the resisting arrest portion of N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2 limits the class of potential victims to a "law enforcement ... any person" in the context of the other language in N.J.S.A. 2C:29-2 further supports the conclusion that the Legislature intended to ascribe ...

docket:	a-21-03
court:
decided:	2004-08-03
status:
citation:	180 N.J. 534 853 A.2d 238
Document Size:	83859