Penal Code 69 defines the crime of resisting
an executive officer.
And this is really a more serious version
of resisting arrest.
Resisting arrest can only be filed as a misdemeanor.
The maximum sentence is a year in custody.
Whereas Penal Code 69 can be filed as a felony.
And if you're convicted, you could face up
to three years in jail or prison, sometimes more
if there's injuries involved.
Now, there's two ways to violate Penal Code 69,
resisting an executive officer.
One is to use force or violence to resist an executive officer
in the performance of their duties.
And this is a classic example of the police trying
to arrest you and you resisting and fighting back and using
force against them.
The second instance is threats or violence
that are used to try to prevent an executive officer
from performing their duty.
Now, usually these cases are filed
in a situation where the executive officer is a police
officer or a peace officer.
But really they could be filed where the executive officer is
any sort of government employee trying to do their duties.
So that would include prosecutors, judges,
animal control officers, parking enforcement officers.
If it's street-sweeping day and the meter maid is starting
to write you up a ticket, and you go and say,
you write that ticket, I'm going to kick
your ass, that would be an example of resisting
an executive officer.