People v. Clark

In People v. Clark, 241 AD2d 710, 660 NYS2d 200 (3rd Dept. 1997) the defendant was found crawling among some desks in a school lab by the police. He then ignored the officers, who identified themselves and demanded that the defendant surrender himself, by trying to leave the room and by resisting attempts by the officers to handcuff him. The court held that "His verbal and physical refusal to submit to the authority of the arresting officers provided a legally sufficient basis from which County Court could infer that the defendant knew he was being arrested and that he possessed the requisite intent for resisting such arrest." (Ibid at 710, 202.)