Joe: What's the maximum penalty for a misdemeanor like Driving With a Suspended Registration, or Resisting Detention?
No; in fact, in most states Resisting Detention -- for instance, by walking away from the officer who's questioning you -- is a misdemeanor that will immediately get you put in cuffs.
And you'll probably be asked out of the vehicle, frisked, detained a much longer period of time, and, if you fail in even a single particular to follow the officer's directions on where you should stand and what you should do with your arms, you'll be arrested for Resisting Detention.
So they hoped that I would not resist my detention, be patient, and give some face to Jiang Zemin for the sake of the country.
He said detainees had no other way to resist their detention, which was ruled illegal by Papua New Guinea's supreme court eight months ago.
"They resisted the detention and the efforts of the coalition forces to go in there and apprehend them, and they were killed in the ensuing gunfight and the attacks that we conducted on the residence".
"Some of the prisoners have organised into armed groups and resist their indefinite detention by firing rockets over the prison wall.
As teachers, students, and scholars across the world, we are watching with extreme concern the situation unfolding at JNU and refuse to remain silent as our colleagues (students, staff, and faculty) resist the illegal detention and autocratic suspension of students.
Within days, it was Diendéré and his henchmen who found themselves in detention, unable to resist a potent combination of popular protests, firm regional diplomacy and an army that remembered its first duty was to the people, not politicians.
Last month, Human Rights Watch accused Kurdish authorities in the disputed provinces of using intimidation, threats, arrests and detention against minorities who resist Kurdish expansion plans.
