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RUGGLES v. STATE

Nos. 5D99-1125, 5D99-1537.

757 So.2d 632 (2000)

Dennis S. RUGGLES, and Joyce D. Seagle, Appellants, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

May 19, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James B. Gibson, Public Defender, and Barbara C. Davis, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellants.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Mary G. Jolley, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.

PETERSON, J.

Dennis Scott Ruggles and Joyce D. Seagle appeal their convictions for the offenses of battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest with violence. We affirm.

If a person resists an arrest with violence and has reason to know the person seeking to arrest him or her is an officer of the law, the fact that the arrest was illegal is generally irrelevant. "There is no right to commit a battery upon a law enforcement officer." State v...

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