Is a resisting arrest charge in Mississippi a misdemeanor?

Any contact may be charged as assault and battery on a peace officer, even slapping an officers hands away or bumping an officer). This is a FELONY and can send you to prison or put you on extensive probation and stay on your record forever. It also makes you look violent, and police are past masters at making piddly encounters look like life threatening incidents if you tick them off.

A felony conviction will ruin your life, and since courts frown on people fighting law enforcement officials, chances are you will be convicted, especially if you cannot afford a lawyer and if the town does not know you from Adam. Even if you only have an underlying offense as simple as reckless driving, public intox or some other piddly misdemeanor, resisting can turn even a simple traffic stop into a felony conviction. Even if you are innocent and wrongly accused or identified, cooperate, shut up, get your lawyer, and let it sort itself out from the jail or in court.