Any person who shall make an assault or battery, or both, by knowingly and willfully
either (1) striking, or (2) spraying with a noxious chemical, commonly used as a personal
defense weapon, including Mace and an oleoresin capsicum product or like products,
a uniformed member of the state police or metropolitan park police, environmental
police officer, state properties patrol officer, probation and parole officers, state
government case worker or investigator, judge of the supreme, superior, family, district
court, traffic tribunal or municipal court, deputy sheriff, city or town police officer
or firefighter, member of the capitol police, member of campus security force of state
colleges and universities, member of the Rhode Island airport police department, member
of the Rhode Island fugitive task force, Rhode Island public transit authority bus
driver, or on-duty plainclothes member of the town, city, or state police force, investigator
of the department of the attorney general appointed pursuant to § 42-9-8.1, or member of the railroad police after proper identification is displayed, or uniformed
dog officer, or out-of-state police officer called into Rhode Island under a cooperative
agreement to provide mutual aid at the request of the state of Rhode Island pursuant
to chapter 37 of title 42, or assistant attorney general or special assistant attorney general, or employees
of the department of environmental management responsible for administrative inspections
or any constable authorized by chapter 45-16 of the Rhode Island general law causing
bodily injury while the officer or official is engaged in the performance of his or
her duty, shall be deemed to have committed a felony, and shall be imprisoned not
exceeding three (3) years, or fined not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500),
or both.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
16
cases (
1 in the last 5 years), 1969–2024 · leading case:
State v. Grayhurst, 852 A.2d 491 (R.I. 2004).
State v. Grayhurst, 852 A.2d 491 (R.I. 2004).
· cites it 5× “” G.L.1956 § 11-5-5. Of these two crimes, only contempt requires an attack on the dignity of the court.”
State v. Ramsdell, 285 A.2d 399 (R.I. 1971).
· cites it 6× “1956, §11-5-5, in that he knowingly and willfully struck a uniformed police officer while the officer was engaged in the performance of his duties.”
State v. Contreras, 253 A.2d 612 (R.I. 1969).
· cites it 4× “1956, §11-5-5, as amended. Specifically, the charge was that they knowingly and wilfully struck a uniformed member of the Newport police department, causing him bodily injury, and that the officer was then engaged in the performance of his duty.”
State v. Botelho, 459 A.2d 947 (R.I. 1983).
· cites it 8× “1956 (1969 Reenactment) § 11-5-5. 1 A Superior Court jury returned a guilty verdict, and Botelho now appeals.”
State v. Gelinas, 417 A.2d 1381 (R.I. 1980).
· cites it 2× “1956 (1969 Reenactment) § 11-5-5, as amended by P.L.1979, ch. 249, § 1.”
State v. Cook, 440 A.2d 137 (R.I. 1982).
· cites it 3× “1956 (1981 Reenactment) § 11-5-5, knowingly and willfully struck a uniformed police officer while the officer was engaged in the performance of his duties.”
State v. Benevides, 420 A.2d 65 (R.I. 1980).
“1956 (1969 Reenactment) § 11-5-5, which has since been amended by P.”
State v. Pombo, 290 A.2d 855 (R.I. 1972).
· cites it 5× “The defendant was indicted for knowingly and willfully striking a uniformed police officer while the officer was engaged in the performance of his duty and causing him bodily injury in violation of G.L. 1956, §11-5-5, 1 as amended by P.L. 1968, ch.”
State v. Lima, 316 A.2d 501 (R.I. 1974).
· cites it 3× “1956 (1969 Reenactment) §11-5-5, as amended. The case is here on the defendant’s exceptions to the denial of her motion for a new trial, and to a certain portion of the charge.”
State v. Edwards, 478 A.2d 972 (R.I. 1984).
“As to counts 2 and 3, assaulting a police officer in violation of § 11-5-5, the defendant was acquitted. On appeal the defendant assigns as error certain evidentiary and other rulings.”
State v. Elton G. Edwards, 147 A.3d 982 (R.I. 2016).
· cites it 2× “More specifically, in count 1, the trial justice found defendant guilty of felony assault of a police officer (G.L. 1956 § 11-5-5), relying on Lt. Fernandes’s testimony.”
State v. Small, 410 A.2d 1336 (R.I. 1980).
“1956 (1969 Reenactment) §11-5-5, as amended by P.L. 1973, ch. 66, §1, with assault of a uniformed police officer with resultant bodily injury to the officer.”
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