A.
Offense. A person commits the offense of obstructing the performance
of police duties if he or she willfully prevents or attempts to prevent
a police officer or other duly authorized law enforcement officer
from effecting an arrest or otherwise discharging the duties of his
or her office by any of the following actions:
(1)
Creating or appearing to create a risk of bodily harm to the officer
or any other person; or
(2)
Employing means or threatening to employ means which would justify
or require force on the part of the officer to overcome them; or
(3)
Escaping, attempting to escape, or assisting or attempting to assist
another to escape from custody of the officer; or
(4)
Harboring or concealing a person he or she knows is believed by a
law enforcement officer to have committed a crime or assisting such
a person to avoid discovery or apprehension, or concealing any evidence
material to such a crime; or
(5)
Giving information to a law enforcement officer he or she knows is
false or believes to be false.
B.
Obstructing the performance of police duties is a Class A misdemeanor.
A.
A person who, with intent to prevent a law enforcement officer from
effecting an arrest, flees from a law enforcement officer after being
told by an officer that the person is under arrest, or creates a substantial
risk of bodily harm to the officer or any other person, or employs
means justifying substantial force to overcome the resistance, is
guilty of resisting arrest. The Court, in its discretion, may require
a person convicted of resisting arrest to make restitution to the
law enforcement officer for property of the officer that was damaged
as the result of the person's resistance.
B.
A person is guilty of resisting arrest under this section regardless
of whether the arrest resisted is lawful or unlawful. Force that is
clearly excessive may be resisted.
C.
Resisting arrest is a Class A misdemeanor.
A.
A person commits the offense of perjury if he or she makes any sworn
statement, either in writing or orally, or a sworn affidavit, in a
proceeding in the Tribal Court, knowing or having reasonable cause
to know the same to be false, or if he induces another person to do
so.
B.
Perjury is a Class B misdemeanor; provided, however, that if any
other person has been unjustly deprived of liberty or property or
the use or benefit thereof as a result of such perjury, perjury under
such circumstances is a Class A misdemeanor.
A.
A person is guilty of the offense of escape from lawful custody if
he or she unlawfully removes himself or herself from official detention
or fails to return to official detention following temporary leave
granted for a specific purpose or limited period.
B.
Escape is a Class B misdemeanor. The Tribal Court may add any jail
time consistent with conviction of a Class B misdemeanor, fine, or
both, to the sentence the offender was originally given.
A.
A person set at liberty by court order, with or without bail, upon
condition that he or she will subsequently appear at a specified time
or place, commits the offense of bail jumping if, without lawful excuse,
he or she fails to appear at that time and place.
B.
Bail jumping is a Class B misdemeanor. A person convicted of bail
jumping may also be subject, in the discretion of the Court, to revocation
of bail.
