Arrest For Obstruction In Texas
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Making your body go limp to make it difficult for the officers to arrest you. Running away from officers trying to arrest you. Hiding from officers who are trying to arrest you. Not opening the door when officers are trying to arrest you.
Section 38.03 - Resisting Arrest, Search, or Transportation (a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally prevents or obstructs a person he knows is a peace officer or a person acting in a peace officer's presence and at his direction from effecting an arrest, search, or transportation of the actor or another by ...
Resisting Arrest is one felony, because you are fighting the arrest. And evading is Fleeing Arrest which is another felony.
The number of stops that met these criteria –sole resisting arrest stops – totaled 3,621 in 2022 (0.08%). The largest portion of these sole resisting arrest stops were initiated for reasonable suspicion of criminal activity (2,329, 64.3% of sole resisting arrest stops), followed by traffic violations (929, 25.7%).
In United States jurisdictions, obstruction of justice refers to a number of offenses that involve unduly influencing, impeding, or otherwise interfering with the justice system, especially the legal and procedural tasks of prosecutors, investigators, or other government officials.
Obstruction is a broad crime that may include acts such as perjury, making false statements to officials, witness tampering, jury tampering, destruction of evidence, and many others.
Obstruction is a broad crime that may include acts such as perjury, making false statements to officials, witness tampering, jury tampering, destruction of evidence, and many others.
(a) A peace officer or any other person, may, without a warrant, arrest an offender when the offense is committed in his presence or within his view, if the offense is one classed as a felony or as an offense against the public peace.
A person commits obstructing a highway or other public thoroughfare if the person, alone or with other persons, does any of the following: Having no legal privilege to do so, recklessly interferes with the passage of any highway or public thoroughfare by creating an unreasonable inconvenience or hazard.
Texas Penal Code Section 42.03 defines obstruction of the highway as an individual obstructing a highway, street, sidewalk, railway, waterway, elevator, aisle, hallway, entrance, or exit to which the public or a substantial group of the public has access, or any other place used for the passage of persons, vehicles, or ...
