Arrestable Offenses under F.S. 843.025
M = misdemeanor · F = felony · degree: F=1st S=2nd T=3rd§843.025OBSTRUCT POLICEDEPRIVE OF MEANS PROTECTION OR COMMUNICATIONF · 3rd
CopyCited 207 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 11353, 2011 WL 2162997
...§
784.07(2)(b) and §
784.03(1);
resisting an officer with violence under Fla. Stat. Ann. §
843.01; two counts of use of a weapon
on a law enforcement officer under Fla. Stat. Ann. §
790.054; and depriving an officer of means
of protection or communication under Fla. Stat. Ann. §
843.025. Because the Deputies lacked a
warrant for Mr. Coffin’s arrest, these charges, with the exception of the §
843.025 charge, were
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Saucier v....
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CopyCited 5 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 38 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 877, 2013 WL 6305393, 2013 Fla. LEXIS 2640
...Unlawfully harming a public servant is a second degree felony. Threatening unlawful harm is a third degree felony. See §
838.021(3)(a) and (b), Fla. Stat. Comment This instruction was adopted in 2013. 21.13 DEPRIVING AN OFFICER OF MEANS OF [PROTECTION] [COMMUNICATION] §
843.025, Fla....
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CopyCited 4 times | Published | District Court, S.D. Florida | 2004 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9674
...None of the allegations in the Second Amended Complaint even remotely establish a claim for obstruction of justice. §
843.01, Fla. Stat. (resisting officer with violence); §
843.02, Fla. Stat. (resisting officer without violence); §
843.021, Fla. Stat. (unlawful possession of a concealed handcuff key); §
843.025, Fla....
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CopyCited 3 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
...§
784.07(2)(b) and §
784.03(1); resisting an
officer with violence under Fla. Stat. §
843.01; two counts of use of a weapon on a law
enforcement officer under Fla. Stat. §
790.054; and depriving an officer of means of protection
or communication under Fla. Stat. §
843.025. Because the Deputies lacked a warrant for Mr.
Coffin’s arrest, these charges, with the exception of the §
843.025 charge, were dropped....
CopyCited 3 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 2010 WL 3220640
...§
784.07(2)(b) and §
784.03(1); resisting an
officer with violence under Fla. Stat. §
843.01; two counts of use of a weapon on a law
enforcement officer under Fla. Stat. §
790.054; and depriving an officer of means of protection or
communication under Fla. Stat. §
843.025. Because the Deputies lacked a warrant for Mr.
Coffin’s arrest, these charges, with the exception of the §
843.025 charge, were dropped....
CopyCited 1 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2005 WL 856921
...ime to change his clothes, apparently after the dye pack activated, and he also had time to hide the money in the console of the vehicle. AFFIRMED. PALMER and ORFINGER, JJ., concur. NOTES [1] §
812.13(1)(c), Fla. Stat. [2] §
843.01, Fla. Stat. [3] §
843.025, Fla....
CopyPublished | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 2016 Fla. App. LEXIS 14742
...officer with violence, in violation of section
843.01, Florida Statutes; Count II
alleged battery upon an officer, in violation of sections
784.03 and
784.07(2)(b);
Count III alleged depriving an officer of a means of protection (the flashlight), in
violation of section
843.025; and Count IV alleged battery—for the underlying
domestic violence that led the officers to Tims’s home in the first place....
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CopyPublished | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 12780, 2010 WL 2490977
...§
784.07 (2)(b) and §
784.03(1); resisting an officer with violence under Fla. Stat. §
843.01 ; two counts of use of a weapon on a law enforcement officer under Fla. Stat. §
790.054 ; and depriving an officer of means of protection or communication under Fla. Stat. §
843.025 . Because the Deputies lacked a warrant for Mr. Coffin's arrest, these charges, with the exception of the §
843.025 charge, were dropped....
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CopyPublished | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2006 WL 1476050
...In order for Deputy Keegan to gain control over Rodriguez it was necessary for him to use pepper spray and to strike Rodriguez with his baton, at which point Deputy Keegan was able to grab the handcuffs out of *992 Rodriguez's hand, handcuff him, and take him into custody. Section 843.025, Florida Statutes (2004), entitled "Depriving officer of means of protection or communication" states: It is unlawful for any person to deprive a law enforcement officer as defined in s....
...Rodriguez argues that handcuffs are not a means of defending oneself as required by the statute and his conviction cannot stand because his conduct does not constitute the charged offense. We disagree. There are no cases specifically addressing the definition of a weapon or means of defending oneself as applied to section 843.025....
...pon" is included only to show the extent to which a weapon is a means to defend oneself. We agree with the state and decline to apply the rule of ejusdem generis to limit the "means" to defend oneself to only "weapons." It is clear from the title of section 843.025 that it is a third degree felony to deprive an officer of a means of protection or communication....
CopyPublished | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1991 Fla. App. LEXIS 4775, 1991 WL 85524
PER CURIAM. Appellant was convicted under section
843.02, Florida Statutes, resisting arrest without violence, a second-degree misdemeanor; and section
843.025, Florida Statutes, depriving an officer of means of protection, a third-degree felony....
CopyPublished | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
...§
784.07(2)(b) and §
784.03(1);
resisting an officer with violence under Fla. Stat. Ann. §
843.01; two counts of use of a weapon
on a law enforcement officer under Fla. Stat. Ann. §
790.054; and depriving an officer of means
of protection or communication under Fla. Stat. Ann. §
843.025. Because the Deputies lacked a
warrant for Mr. Coffin’s arrest, these charges, with the exception of the §
843.025 charge, were
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We are no longer required to follow the two-step process once mandated by
Saucier v....
CopyPublished | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
...§
784.07(2)(b) and §
784.03(1);
resisting an officer with violence under Fla. Stat. Ann. §
843.01; two counts of use of a weapon
on a law enforcement officer under Fla. Stat. Ann. §
790.054; and depriving an officer of means
of protection or communication under Fla. Stat. Ann. §
843.025. Because the Deputies lacked a
warrant for Mr. Coffin’s arrest, these charges, with the exception of the §
843.025 charge, were
7
We are no longer required to follow the two-step process once mandated by
Saucier v....
CopyPublished | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 2001 Fla. App. LEXIS 84, 2001 WL 20817
...We affirm Guy Strattan, Jr.’s convictions for grand theft of a firearm and attempted first degree murder of a law enforcement officer but we reverse his conviction for “depriving] a law enforcement officer ... of ... his ... radio or ... the means to ... summon assistance.” § 843.025, Fla.Stat....
CopyPublished | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 3815, 2010 WL 625014
...§
784.07 (2)(b) and §
784.03(1); resisting an officer with violence under Fla. Stat. §
843.01 ; two counts of use of a weapon on a law enforcement officer under Fla. Stat. §
790.054 ; and depriving an officer of means of protection or communication under Fla. Stat. §
843.025 . Because the Deputies lacked a warrant for Mr. Coffin's arrest, these charges, with the exception of the §
843.025 charge, were dropped....
CopyPublished | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal
...communication. Furthermore, because the jury was not instructed that depriving
an officer of a means of protection or communication was a strict liability crime,
we do not address appellant’s claim, which was raised for the first time on appeal,
that section 843.025, Florida Statutes (2011), violates due process....
