Can a police officer be found guilty of obstruction under the Criminal Code for failing to yield to the officer's command to desist from further infringement of the municipal by-law?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Sharma, 1991 CanLII 8349 (ON CA):
The respondents rely on Johanson v. The King (1947), 1947 CanLII 352 (SCC), 89 C.C.C. 305, [1947] 4 D.L.R. 337, 3 C.R. 508, to assert that the appellant Sharma may be found guilty of obstruction under the Criminal Code for failure to yield to the police officer's command to desist from further infringement of the municipal by-law.
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