Commonwealth v. Kalinowski

Full title: COMMONWEALTH v. John A. KALINOWSKI.

Court: Appeals Court of Massachusetts.

Date published: Jul 3, 2014

10 N.E.3d 1145 (Mass. App. Ct. 2014)

86 Mass. App. Ct. 1102

Opinion

2014-07-3

COMMONWEALTH v. John A. KALINOWSKI.

At least by the time that the encounter had fully escalated and the defendant refused to submit despite being ordered by Calnan to “stop resisting,” there was sufficient proof that the defendant knowingly used force in an attempt to interfere with the efforts of a duly authorized police officer to arrest him. Commonwealth v. Lawson, 46 Mass.App.Ct. 627, 629–630 (1999), the primary case on which the defendant relies, is not to the contrary. 2