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New Hampshire · Through 2025 regular legislative session, or December 2025

RSA 642:2: Resisting Arrest or Detention.

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  1. Title LXII: CRIMINAL CODE
  2. Chapter 642: OBSTRUCTING GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS

A person is guilty of a misdemeanor when the person knowingly or purposely physically interferes with a person recognized to be a law enforcement official, including a probation or parole officer, seeking to effect an arrest or detention of the person or another regardless of whether there is a legal basis for the arrest. A person is guilty of a class B felony if the act of resisting arrest or detention causes serious bodily injury, as defined in RSA 625:11, VI, to another person. Verbal protestations alone shall not constitute resisting arrest or detention.

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