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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 4 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from People v. Krum.

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1 People v. Krum Anchor
mich · 1965
green “while one may use such reasonable force as is necessary to prevent an illegal attachment and to resist an illegal arrest, the basis for such preventive or resistive action is the illegality of an officer's action, to which defendant immediately reacts.” 2
2 People v. Clements
mich · 1888
green “compelled to submit to such trespass without reasonable resistance.” 2

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