 Hi, I'm David Cantor with the Law Offices of David Michael Cantor and today I'm going to talk about resisting arrest in Arizona. Now under Arizona Revised Statute 13-2508, resisting arrest is defined as attempting to prevent a known police officer acting in official duty from effectuating an arrest by either threat or physical force. Now the punishment, if you have no priors, this is a classics felony and you can get probation up to two years in prison. Now probation means the judge can say I'm going to place you on probation and give you certain terms, remain law abiding, don't drink, see your probation officer, but he can also say I'm going to put a condition of jail, anywhere from zero days in jail up to one year in jail. So you need a lawyer to know what he's doing to make sure you don't get any jail time. Now defenses include lack of intent. This means the cop didn't say you're under arrest, he just grabs you and you pull away. Secondly, lack of knowledge. An officer comes up from behind and you don't realize it's an officer as you're having an argument or you're in a confrontation with somebody else and they grab you and you swing around and take a swing. Self defense. This means you do know it's an officer, they told you you're under arrest but they're now choking you or bending your arm and it's starting to tear your joint and you pull away because you're in too much pain or you feel you're going to be killed and we all know how well choke holds work out with police officers. Now another defense we use is video. So if this happened in a parking lot or a public area, we're going to look for the video surveillance in the nearby areas, get copies of videos and show that what happened is not what the officers say what happened. In fact, we had a case at the Salt River Fields where a ball game where we caught on tape that the officers weren't telling the truth about what happened when somebody was being arrested. So it's very effective. Some defenses are Miranda rights violations, coerced statements, denial of right to counsel if you ask for your lawyer and they wouldn't let you talk to your lawyer or just plain sloppy police reports. So if you are a loved one who's charged with resisting arrest in Arizona, give us a call. We'll give you a free in office consultation. It doesn't cost you anything but it takes about 30 minutes. We're very skilled at these types of cases. In fact, we have multiple certified criminal law specialists on staff. So we look forward to hearing from you soon if you've been charged and we'll help you out. Take care.