L.F. v. State

Full title: L.F., A JUVENILE, Appellant, v. THE STATE OF FLORIDA, ETC., Appellee

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District

Date published: May 15, 2002

816 So. 2d 805 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2002)

Opinion

No. 3D01-3311.

May 15, 2002.

An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, William Johnson, Judge.

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Billie Jan Goldstein, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Paulette R. Taylor, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Before COPE, LEVY, and RAMIREZ, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. See Jones v. State, 570 So.2d 433, 435 (Fla. 5th DCA 1990) ("a person is not justified in using force to resist an arrest where it is reasonably believed that the person making the arrest is a law enforcement officer . . . [t]his is true even if the arrest is technically illegal").