Check out that video. I know it’s assaulting an officer, but is there a specific name for it when it’ s at the police headquarters?
According to this he was charged with “assault on a police officer.”
It appears the penalty is that in Ohio regular assault (which is a misdemeanor) becomes a 4th Degree Felony if the victim is a peace officer there is a long list of other criteria that can make simple assault a felony in Ohio, you can read them all in section 2903.13 of the Ohio Criminal Code.
Penalty for a 4th Degree Felony is any of the following:
Assault on a police officer sounds as good as any. When in doubt though, just throw in a charge of mopery as well too. There is always some degree of mopery involved.
I hereby sic Beryl_Mooncalf on you for a period of one fortnight.
I think the name of the crime is “being a dick”.
There are only a few crimes where the geographical location where it occurs is a factor in the crime. Usually when it’s a aggravating factor that makes the crime more serious.
For example: selling drugs vs. selling drugs within 100 feet of a school. Or creating a public disturbance vs. creating a public disturbance within a courtroom.
Generally, these are written into law when there is a public interest in keeping a particular location safe. Like we want kids at school to be safe, or we want courtrooms to be safe & orderly so the public can attend. Police stations probably aren’t in that category; they are by nature rather disorderly places.
They couldn’t just have said “six to eighteen months”?
I was sadly vaguely interested in that myself. Apparently there is a portion of the Ohio Criminal Code that specifies “definite sentence terms.” Meaning they want judges to only sentence people in “whole month increments” in that 6-18 month (or whatever the range is for the specified crime) range. So they aren’t cool with someone being sentenced to say, 90 days, or 80 days or 150 days, or 7 and a half months or etc.
I can only guess this was an issue at some point and they more specified how it was to be done to avoid judges sentencing people to ‘strange’ intervals.
Or it might be part of the nitpickery of the legal profession. Like laws or even just contracts that say; “an amount of $1,000 (one thousand dollars) …” Repeating the amount in words is common, but hardly serves any purpose. (Unlike on checks, where it really helps in deciphering bad handwriting.)
“Reckless stupidity”, I believe.
It seems plausible there could be a charge of “resisting arrest”, but not based on location.
And there are crimes like “assaulting a public official” that could be used for cops, judges, elected officials and the like. Again, probably not location-specific.
There probably are jurisdictions that have penalty enhancements for committing crimes in public buildings like court houses, police and fire stations and such.