354, 526 S.E.2d 863 (1999). Evidence was sufficient to convict the defendant of felony obstruction of a law enforcement officer because the defendant jumped on the officer's back and began choking the officer after the officer, in an effort to avoid being hit, took the defendant's son to the ground and placed a hand on the back of the son's neck; and, as the officer released the son and secured the defendant, the defendant struck the officer twice in the face and once in the neck. Phillips v. State, 269 Ga. App. In the prosecution on charges of interference with government property and obstruction of a law enforcement officer, the trial court did not err in admitting evidence of the defendant's 1993 interference with government property conviction; a new trial was properly denied because the evidence was properly admitted, not as substantive evidence of the offense at issue, but only as to the issue of credibility, providing support for admission of the evidence. Daniel v. State, 282 Ga. App. - Jury could find that refusal to provide identification to officer might hinder execution of duties. 16-10-33(a) and obstruction of an officer in violation of O.C.G.A. Mikell v. State, 231 Ga. App. Defendant's probation was properly revoked for obstructing an officer in violation of O.C.G.A. 625, 490 S.E.2d 104 (1997). State v. Fisher, 293 Ga. App. 40, 692 S.E.2d 708 (2010). 16-10-24. Kendrick v. State, 324 Ga. App. The misdemeanor charge is 12 months in county jail. Harris v. State, 276 Ga. App. Man charged with making terroristic WebArticle 2 - OBSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND RELATED OFFENSES 16-10-24 - Obstructing or hindering law enforcement officers. In the Interest of D.D., 287 Ga. App. Smith v. State, 306 Ga. App. 51-7-40. 51-1-6 for the declarant's alleged violation of the criminal statutes O.C.G.A. 16-10-24 by obstructing or hindering law enforcement officers because the fact that the employee was convicted after a deposition was not a bar to the use of the conviction for impeachment at trial and the conviction could be used for impeachment under former O.C.G.A. 828, 676 S.E.2d 274 (2009). Since the evidence showed completion of the greater offense of felony obstruction, the trial court did not err in failing to charge on misdemeanor obstruction as a lesser included offense. 778, 673 S.E.2d 286 (2009). 348, 441 S.E.2d 888 (1994). 16-10-24 encompasses statements by a party to a law enforcement officer which may reasonably be interpreted as a threat of violence and which amount to an obstruction or hindrance. denied, 2008 Ga. LEXIS 274 (Ga. 2008). Charge on the right to resist an unlawful arrest was not required since the jury was instructed, among other things, that the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the officer was acting in the lawful discharge of official duties. 16-10-24, although there was no evidence that the defendant offered or threatened violence. Green v. State, 339 Ga. App. Scruggs v. State, 309 Ga. App. 7 (2008). unruly, ungovernable, intractable, refractory, recalcitrant, willful, headstrong mean not submissive to government or control. 16-10-24(a) in that defendant knowingly and willfully obstructed or hindered the officer in the lawful discharge of the officer's duties by refusing to follow the officer's reasonable and lawful commands, the offenses as charged in the case were not mutually exclusive as the offenses had different elements and neither guilty verdict legally or logically excluded the other. - It was not error to refuse to merge the defendant's convictions of obstructing a public passage and obstructing a law enforcement officer under O.C.G.A. - Evidence was sufficient to support a conviction of misdemeanor obstruction of a law enforcement officer because, when officers came to defendant's home to execute an arrest warrant on a third party, defendant tried to shut the door, but officers pushed the door open, forcing defendant into the front room, where defendant yelled at the officers, stood face-to-face with one officer while yelling, pointed a finger in the face of another officer, and defendant also blocked a hallway, forcing officers to move defendant to the side so that they could search the rest of the home and defendant was told several times to sit down and remain in one place, but was uncooperative. 897, 487 S.E.2d 696 (1997); In re C.W., 227 Ga. App. 12, 739 S.E.2d 32 (2013). 733, 601 S.E.2d 147 (2004). Christopher Lawrence McMillion Violation of Probation (x3) Danny Eugene Singletary VOP Hold for Harris Obstruction of a Law Enforcement Officer can be charged as a misdemeanor or as felony. 423, 677 S.E.2d 439 (2009). Singleton v. State, 194 Ga. App. 326, 609 S.E.2d 710 (2005). 606, 462 S.E.2d 630 (1995); Strickland v. State, 221 Ga. App. United States v. Brown, 805 F.3d 1325 (11th Cir. - For article, "Misdemeanor Sentencing in Georgia," see 7 Ga. St. B.J. Whaley v. State, 175 Ga. App. Jackson v. State, 213 Ga. App. denied, No. Juvenile's interference with a juvenile probation officer's attempt to take the juvenile into custody, after the juvenile tested positive for illegal drug use, was sufficient to support an adjudication under O.C.G.A. 180, 424 S.E.2d 861 (1992). 16-10-24(b) for resisting that arrest; evidence regarding the defendant's resistance of the officers as the officers lawfully tried to place the defendant in custody supported the defendant's conviction for felony obstruction. Web16-10-24(b) - willful obstruction of law enforcement officers by use of threats or violence - f 16-10-24(a) - willful obstruction of law enforcement officers - m: din: x0057861 name: hendry, dennis calvin birth date: 04/11/1973 race: b 184, 715 S.E.2d 434 (2011). 502, 667 S.E.2d 666 (2008). For there to be a violation of O.C.G.A. Defendant's conviction for obstruction was supported by evidence the defendant fled and thereby knowingly and wilfully hindered police officers in the lawful discharge of the officers' official duties. - Because the defendant was neither indicted nor tried for felony obstruction of justice, the court did not err in refusing to give the requested charge that an accomplice was the one who was present at the commission of a crime, aiding and abetting the perpetrator, or an accessory before the fact; moreover, the court's own charge, which included pattern charges on parties to a crime, knowledge, mere presence at the scene of a crime, and mere association with others committing a crime, substantially covered the same legal principles as the requested charge. In the Interest of M.P., 279 Ga. App. 21, 660 S.E.2d 886 (2008). Raines v. State, 304 Ga. 582, 820 S.E.2d 679 (2018). 16-10-24(b). 16-10-24. 232, 561 S.E.2d 879 (2002). 741, 572 S.E.2d 86 (2002). 16-10-24 lacked merit, granting the officer summary judgment on a false arrest claim was reversed; the idea that the request provided a basis for arrest collided with the First Amendment, whether or not the officer knew the officer was blocking the arrestee's driveway. 757, 833 S.E.2d 142 (2019). - Defendant's act of swinging the defendant's fist at the deputy satisfied the elements of both riot in a penal institution under O.C.G.A. Jamaarques Omaurion Cripps Terroristic Threats and Acts. 493, 677 S.E.2d 680 (2009). Evidence was sufficient to support an adjudication of delinquency based on obstruction of a law enforcement officer; the juvenile defendant's claim that an officer had not ordered the defendant to halt before the defendant ran off was contradicted by the officer's testimony; flight, or attempted flight, after a command to halt constituted obstruction of an officer. Johnson v. State, 302 Ga. App. Clark v. State, 243 Ga. App. 731, 618 S.E.2d 607 (2005). - Defendant was a suspect in a shooting. Hudson v. State, 135 Ga. App. The officer's use of forearm strikes was reasonable and in compliance with departmental policies. 2015). 98, 511 S.E.2d 201 (1999). 16-10-24(a) since the facts and circumstances would cause a prudent person to believe that the arrestee's negative responses to questions about drinking were intentional lies or, at least, constituted stubborn obstinance. 2d 344 (1993). Dudley v. State, 264 Ga. App. Sufficient evidence supported the defendant's conviction for obstructing an officer based on the evidence that showed that the defendant failed to follow the officer's instructions in that the defendant refused to exit the truck when told to do so; the defendant locked the door, rolled up the window and indicated calling9-1-1; and, after the officers pulled the defendant out of the truck, the defendant struggled with the officers, refused to be handcuffed, and tried to get up from the ground. - See Manus v. State, 180 Ga. App. 309, 653 S.E.2d 750 (2007), aff'd, 284 Ga. 773, 671 S.E.2d 484 (2008). Reid v. State, 339 Ga. App. 744, 611 S.E.2d 80 (2005). California Penal Code 148a1 PC is the California statute that defines the crime of resisting arrest.. Coroner Kenny Cooper: 'After all we've been through, we're still alive'. When the defendant was not indicted nor tried for felony obstruction under O.C.G.A. - Inmate's obstruction of a correctional officer conviction was upheld on appeal, based on sufficient evidence describing how the officer was attacked and the extent of the officer's injuries suffered at the hand of the inmate, and testimony from one of the officer's responding to the altercation describing the altercation; hence, the evidence sufficiently supported the jury's rejection of the inmate's self-defense claim. Taylor v. Freeman, F.3d (11th Cir. 467, 480 S.E.2d 911 (1997). 16-10-24(a) as the state proved that the officer was engaged in the lawful discharge of the officer's duties with evidence that the officer was responding to a9-1-1 call reporting that the defendant had followed the frightened caller's vehicle to the caller's home. - As a security officer was on school property when a fellow officer told the security officer that a truant juvenile was hiding behind a house, the juvenile could be pursued on suspicion of hindering an officer in the lawful discharge of duties in violation of O.C.G.A. 2007). 471, 784 S.E.2d 832 (2016). 89 (2017). For annual survey of criminal law, see 56 Mercer L. Rev. of Ga., 330 Ga. App. 487, 621 S.E.2d 508 (2005). Woodward v. State, 219 Ga. App. 286, 576 S.E.2d 654 (2003). What constitutes obstructing or resisting an officer, in the absence of actual force, 44 A.L.R.3d 1018. 16-10-24. 757, 754 S.E.2d 798 (2014). 20, 2017)(Unpublished). Hambrick v. State, 242 Ga. App. - Trial court properly refused to give a jury instruction that was an incorrect statement of the law. - Because a team leader and a program manager were authorized to supervise defendant juveniles at a school and manage a wilderness program, they were legally authorized persons protected by O.C.G.A. 16-10-24, and there was no evidence to support such a charge in law or in fact, the trial court did not err in refusing to deny defendant's request to give a charge thereon. Web843.025 Depriving officer of means of protection or communication. The officers' detention of the defendant was a second-tier encounter because the officers had an articulable suspicion of criminal activity based on the defendant's matching the description and being in the area of an armed robbery; therefore, the defendant was not free to leave the encounter as the defendant did. Evidence was sufficient to convict the defendant of felony obstruction, possession of a knife during the commission of a felony, and disorderly conduct because the defendant slammed the refrigerator door twice, breaking items stored in the door; the victim called9-1-1 seeking assistance for a domestic dispute in progress; when one of the responding officers told the defendant that the defendant would have to leave the house as the victim did not want the defendant living there, the defendant told the officer that the officer could not make the defendant leave; and, when the officer unsnapped a taser from the taser's holster and approached the defendant, the defendant grabbed a knife with an eight-inch blade and threatened the officers with the knife. Ga. 2013). 164, 669 S.E.2d 193 (2008). - Pushing the officer when the officer tried to handcuff a defendant was sufficient to support O.C.G.A. Because defendant swung at a police officer's face with a loose handcuff and violently struggled during an attempted arrest, the evidence was sufficient to sustain a felony obstruction conviction under O.C.G.A. - Trial court did not err in the court's charge on felony obstruction of an officer merely because the court also included the elements of misdemeanor obstruction as the judge was authorized to charge on a lesser crime if that was included in the indictment or accusation, and misdemeanor obstruction of an officer was a lesser included offense of the indicted offense of felony obstruction. 412, 519 S.E.2d 20 (1999); Richardson v. State, 239 Ga. App. Based on evidence that the defendant's conduct in hollering and cursing outside the house prevented an officer from continuing to photograph the scene and going inside to collect evidence and caused another officer to stop the officer's activities inside the house and come outside to assist, a rational trier of fact could have concluded that the defendant knowingly and willingly hindered the officer in the lawful charge of duties for purposes of a conviction for obstruction of an officer. - Deputy sheriff was entitled to qualified immunity with respect to plaintiff's federal civil rights claims, which were properly dismissed on summary judgment, because plaintiff did not show that the deputy violated plaintiff's constitutional rights; the deputy had probable cause to stop plaintiff for a tag-light violation under O.C.G.A. Is 12 months in county jail A.L.R.3d 1018 was properly revoked for obstructing an officer, in the of. Ga. St. B.J of criminal law, see 56 Mercer L. 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