People v. Cervantes

Defendant was convicted, after bench trial, of resisting a peace officer, a Class 4 felony because his conduct proximately caused injuries to an officer. Officer suffered abrasions as he tripped and fell multiple times on ice and snow while chasing Defendant through woods and backyards, after officer ordered Defendant to stop after he had driven through two stop signs without stopping. Defendant should reasonably have foreseen that a pursuing officer might be injured by a fall, and Defendant's act of running need not have been the sole cause, but a contributing cause of officer's injuries, under pertinent statute, and as in analogous context of felony murder. (SCHOSTOK and BIRKETT, concurring.)