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Illinois · Through at least Public Act 104-790

720 ILCS 5/7-7: Private person's use of force in resisting arrest.

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  1. CHAPTER 720 CRIMINAL OFFENSES
  2. Criminal Code of 2012.

A person is not authorized to use force to resist an arrest which he knows is being made either by a peace officer or by a private person summoned and directed by a peace officer to make the arrest, even if he believes that the arrest is unlawful and the arrest in fact is unlawful.

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