28.6. Fleeing To Elude A Law Enforcement Officer

28.6 FLEEING TO ELUDE A LA W ENFORCEMENT OFFICER 316.1935(1), Fla. Stat. To prove the crime of Fleeing to Elude a Law Enforcement Officer, the State must prove the following three elements beyond a reasonable doubt: 1. [Name of defendant] was operating a vehicle upon a street or highway in Florida. 2. A duly authorized law enforcement officer ordered [name of defendant] to stop or remain stopped. 3. [Name of defendant], knowing [he] [she] had been directed to stop by a duly authorized law enforcement officer: a . willfully refused or failed to stop the vehicle in compliance with the order] or b. ped the vehicle, willfully fled in an attempt to elude the officer]. Operator means any person who is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle upon the highway [or who is exercising control over or steering a vehicle being towed by a mhicle being towed by over or steering a veotor vehicle]. Street or highway means the entire width between boundary lines of every way or place of whatever nature when any part thereof is open to the public for purposes of vehicular traffic. by which any person or property is or Vehicle means every device, in, upon, ormay, excepting devices used exclusively upon y be transported or drawn upon a highwastationary rails or tracks. Willfully means intentionally, knowingly and purposely.