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Originally Posted by Rainger99
Question for cops or lawyers.
Scottie is charged with disregarding signals from an officer directing traffic and second-degree assault of a police officer.
Reports are that the cop was wearing a yellow raincoat and was not clearly identifiable as a police officer. If you don’t know that a person is a cop, can you be be charged with assaulting a cop or disregarding signals from a cop? Is intent an issue? If I am driving and a plain clothes officer tells me to turn left and I turn right, have I committed a crime?
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"Is intent an issue?" It is possibly a mitigating circumstance. Ex: You are trying to get to your tee time. You hit someone. You didn't intend to. But you did, and they die. Is it murder or manslaughter, or something else. You decide, Judge.