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COM. v. HILL

Record No. 012526.

570 S.E.2d 805 (2002)

264 Va. 541

COMMONWEALTH of Virginia v. John Howard HILL, Jr.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

November 1, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jennifer R. Franklin, Assistant Attorney General (Jerry W. Kilgore, Attorney General, on brief), for appellant.

Denise Winborne, Assistant Public Defender, for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.

Opinion by Justice BARBARA MILANO KEENAN.

In this appeal, we consider whether the Court of Appeals erred in reversing a defendant's conviction and dismissing an indictment on the ground that the common law right to use reasonable force to resist an illegal arrest also confers a right to use reasonable force to resist an illegal detention.

John H. Hill, Jr., was indicted for assault and battery of a law enforcement...

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