UJI 14-2215 NMRA
UJI 14-2215. Resisting, evading or obstructing an officer; essential elements.1
For you to find the defendant guilty of resisting, evading or obstructing an officer [as
charged in Count __________]1, the state must prove to your satisfaction beyond a
reasonable doubt each of the following elements of the crime:
1. __________________ (name of officer) was a [peace officer2] [judge]
[magistrate]3 in the lawful discharge of duty;
2. The defendant knew___________________(name of officer) was a [peace
officer] [judge] [magistrate]3;
3. [The defendant knowingly obstructed, resisted or opposed _________________
(name of officer) in serving or attempting to serve or execute any process or any rule or
order of any of the courts of this state or any other judicial writ or process;]
[OR]3
[The defendant, with the knowledge that _____________ (name of officer) was
attempting to apprehend or arrest the defendant, fled, attempted to evade or evaded
__________________ (name of officer);]
[OR]3
[The defendant willfully refused to bring a vehicle to a stop when given a visual or
audible signal to stop by _______________________ (name of officer), a uniformed
officer who was in an appropriately marked police vehicle;]
[OR]3
[The defendant resisted or abused ____________________ (name of officer) in the
lawful discharge of _____________________’s (name of officer) duties;]
4. This happened in New Mexico on or about the __________ day of
______________, ________.