751, 270 S.E.2d 38 (1980); Jenga v. State, 166 Ga. App. Phillips v. State, 267 Ga. App. Hudson v. State, 135 Ga. App. Dudley v. State, 264 Ga. App. WebObstruction of justice is serious offense that both judges and law enforcement officials will not take lightly. Appx. The 2019 amendment, effective July 1, 2019, substituted "game warden" for "conservation ranger" in subsections (a), (b), and (c). 16-10-24(b); despite conflicts in the evidence, the trier of fact was authorized to resolve the issue of self defense against the juveniles. - Construed most favorably to the verdict, the evidence that defendant sold cocaine to undercover officers was sufficient to allow a rational jury to find defendant guilty of selling a controlled substance, selling a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a public housing project, and resisting arrest. - Trial court did not abuse the court's discretion in limiting the recharge of the jury to the statutory definition of "obstruction" rather than giving a more comprehensive instruction as there was no indication that the jury was confused or left with an erroneous impression of the law. 778, 673 S.E.2d 286 (2009). When a defendant fought an officer during an attempted detention for an investigative stop, the officer had probable cause to arrest the defendant for obstruction of an officer under O.C.G.A. Defendant juvenile's arrest was not defective because a law enforcement officer was engaged in the discharge of a juvenile court's pick-up order, which the defendant resisted, thus providing probable cause for the defendant's arrest for obstruction in violation of O.C.G.A. Evidence supported defendant's rape, aggravated sodomy, aggravated assault, criminal trespass, misdemeanor obstruction of a law enforcement officer, felony obstruction of a law enforcement officer, and possession of marijuana conviction because: (1) a victim testified that defendant choked her, slammed her around a room, and raped and sodomized her, then drank a beer, took her BC powder packets, and a cell phone, and left; (2) defendant fled from the police, kicked two officers, and had marijuana, BC packets, and a cell phone on his person; (3) defendant's DNA matched the DNA on the beer can; (4) a nurse testified that the victim's bruise was consistent with strangulation; and (5) a doctor testified that the victim's injuries were consistent with rape and sodomy. - Evidence was sufficient to enable a jury to find that the defendant obstructed or hindered a law enforcement official in violation of O.C.G.A. stopping them doing something, de Christopher Lawrence McMillion Violation of Probation (x3) Danny Eugene Singletary VOP Hold for Harris 16-10-24) was made purposefully broad to cover actions which might not be otherwise unlawful, but which obstructed or hindered law enforcement officers in carrying out their duties. - Evidence was sufficient for the jury to find the defendant guilty of misdemeanor hindering of an officer, O.C.G.A. 16-10-24(a), and this was protected activity under O.C.G.A. 16-10-24. Nonetheless, the error was harmless since the inmate failed to demonstrate that the inmate's conviction under 16-10-24 had been reversed or invalidated; the inmate's claims for false arrest and false imprisonment were now barred by the Heck decision. - Defendant, upon seeing a police officer, ran away. Spencer v. State, 296 Ga. App. Evidence sufficiently supported a juvenile defendant's adjudication of delinquency based upon obstruction of a law enforcement officer in violation of O.C.G.A. An officer had probable cause to arrest a defendant for public drunkenness and for obstruction of a police officer. This offense is most frequently called Resisting and Obstructing an Officer. 493, 677 S.E.2d 680 (2009). WebUniversal Citation: GA Code 16-10-24 (2015) (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this Code section, a person who knowingly and willfully obstructs or hinders any law enforcement officer in the lawful discharge of his official duties is guilty of a misdemeanor. 16-10-24(a), based on the defendant's claim that the defendant was entitled to resist an unlawful search of the defendant's premises; among other things, exigent circumstances existed to justify the officers' warrantless entry onto the defendant's property because officers observed that the defendant's dogs did not have their required rabies tags, and further investigation, including the capturing of the animals, was necessary to protect the public against a risk of rabies. Sept. 2, 2014)(Unpublished). 326, 672 S.E.2d. Defendant's probation was properly revoked for obstructing an officer in violation of O.C.G.A. 66, 622 S.E.2d 425 (2005). You already receive all suggested Justia Opinion Summary Newsletters. - Dispute over custody as affecting charge of obstructing or resisting arrest, 3 A.L.R. 20, 2017)(Unpublished). 725 (1915). Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this Code section, a person who knowingly and willfully obstructs or hinders any law enforcement officer, prison guard, jailer, correctional officer, community supervision officer, county or Department of Juvenile Justice juvenile probation officer, probation officer serving pursuant to Article 6 of Chapter 8 of Title 42, or game warden in the lawful discharge of his or her official duties shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Carlos Jermaine Evans Possession of Firearm by Convicted Felon, Obstruction of Law Enforcement Officer. Accusation must disclose official character of officer. Construction with O.C.G.A. 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. Carlos Jermaine Evans Possession of Firearm by Convicted Felon, Obstruction of Law Enforcement Officer. 2d 373 (2004). 350, 385 S.E.2d 28 (1989). 233, 651 S.E.2d 155 (2007), cert. This evidence was sufficient to support the defendant's conviction of misdemeanor obstruction of an officer, O.C.G.A. Jastram v. Williams, 276 Ga. App. Off-duty deputy sheriff moonlighting as a bouncer for a private establishment was engaged in performance of official duties within meaning of O.C.G.A. 326, 609 S.E.2d 710 (2005). 16-10-24(a) because defendant cursed at police when police arrived at the restaurant where defendant had been asked to leave, defendant laid on the floor of the restaurant and did not heed the officer's request to stand up, and continued to physically resist the officers as the officers handcuffed and arrested defendant. S08C0986, 2008 Ga. LEXIS 386 (Ga. 2008). 16-10-24 and the court did not err in charging both means to the jury. Flight, or attempted flight, after command to halt constitutes obstruction of officer. S92C1446, 1992 Ga. LEXIS 865 (1992). Three suspects arrested in smoke shop armed robbery. 517, 284 S.E.2d 33 (1981). 772, 792 S.E.2d 732 (2016), overruled on other grounds by Collier v. State, 834 S.E.2d 769, 2019 Ga. LEXIS 708 (Ga. 2019). 734, 746 S.E.2d 216 (2013). For comment on Westin v. McDaniel, 760 F. Supp. Mangum v. State, 228 Ga. App. With respect to $300.00 of the fine imposed, after distributing the surcharges and deductions required by Chapter 21 of Title 15, Code Sections 36-15-9 and 42-8-34, and Title 47, it shall be earmarked for the Georgia State Indemnification Fund for purposes of payment of indemnification for death or disability as provided for in Part 1 of Article 5 of Chapter 9 of Title 45. 456, 571 S.E.2d 456 (2002). 16-10-56. Scruggs v. State, 309 Ga. App. 16-10-24(a) and fleeing or attempting to elude in violation of O.C.G.A. Bihlear v. State, 295 Ga. App. 16-10-24(b) because a police officer testified that the defendant interfered with the officer's attempts to interview the defendant's daughter and her mother after the officer was dispatched to the defendant's home in response to a domestic disturbance call, that the defendant ordered the officer to leave, and that the defendant approached the officer and took up a fighting stance; the officer was forced to wrestle the defendant to the ground in order to handcuff the defendant, and the defendant spat into the officer's face as the officer was putting the defendant in the patrol car. Jarvis v. State, 294 Ga. App. In re G.M.M., 179 Ga. App. Boats; fleeing or attempting to elude a law enforcement officer. This is why obstruction of justice is sometimes considered to be a type of white collar crime. 25, 2011). Defendant's misdemeanor obstruction of an officer conviction under O.C.G.A. Man charged with making terroristic Given the evidence of the defendant's effort to resist law enforcement officers, which hindered the officers in carrying out the officers' duties, the defendant's misdemeanor obstruction of a law enforcement officer convictions were upheld on appeal as supported by sufficient evidence. of Ga., 330 Ga. App. 154, 395 S.E.2d 399 (1990). Albers v. Ga. Bd. Web16-10-24(A) - WILLFUL OBSTRUCTION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS - MISDEMEANOR - Cleared by Arrest 16-5-20(A) - Simple Assault/Assault - Family Violence - Cleared by Arrest 28 Male White 5 LEE ST NW #APT A, ROME, GA 30165 03/01/23 2005 DEAN AVE BRADLEY, Rome Police Department PEARSON, OLON BEECHARD 16-9-121.1(a) - 326, 672 S.E.2d. - Juvenile's adjudications on the charges of loitering and obstruction of an officer arising out of the July 18 incident were reversed for failure to prove venue because, although the officer testified that the officer observed two individuals loitering outside the apartment complex, the officer never testified that the complex was in Spalding County or that the officer's pursuit of the juvenile occurred there; the state presented no other evidence of venue, and nothing in the record indicated that the trial court took judicial notice of the location of the apartment complex; and defense counsel's statements were not intended to be a stipulation of venue or that the juvenile authorized a stipulation as to venue. You can explore additional available newsletters here. ), cert. 401, To establish a crime under the [disclosure to a] law enforcement officer section of the Act, the 16-10-24 beyond a reasonable doubt because, during a prison disciplinary report hearing, the inmate became loud and agitated and two officers were instructed to remove the inmate from the hearing room and place the inmate in a nearby holding cell; the inmate resisted by pulling from side to side, and then resisted being placed in the holding cell by repeatedly kicking the officers, causing the officers to wrestle the inmate to the floor to subdue the inmate. 2d (N.D. Ga. Mar. Jennings v. State, 285 Ga. App. In the Interest of E.G., 286 Ga. App. 16-10-24(a) when the defendant refused to obey commands to return to the defendant's vehicle while the officer was attempting to investigate a DUI in another vehicle containing a driver and three passengers. Frequan Ladez Dison, 724 Fifth St. WebIf any person without just cause knowingly obstructs a judge, magistrate, justice, juror, attorney for the Commonwealth, witness, any law-enforcement officer, or animal control officer employed pursuant to 3.2-6555 in the performance of his duties as such or fails or refuses without just cause to cease such obstruction when requested to do so 21, 660 S.E.2d 886 (2008). 354, 526 S.E.2d 863 (1999). - Evidence supported defendant's conviction of misdemeanor obstruction of a law enforcement officer because: (1) an officer went to a residence to perform a safety check after a9-1-1 hang-up call was received from the residence; (2) comments made to the officer by a child trying to climb out of a front window led the officer to believe that a domestic violence incident might be in progress inside the residence; (3) the officer entered the home and saw defendant, who uttered profanities, walked toward the officer and ordered the officer out of the house, and the officer then stepped outside the house; (4) after another officer arrived, the officers told defendant that they needed to enter the house to investigate the call, but defendant refused to allow the officers into the house; and (5) eventually, the officers were required to arrest defendant to enter the house. 903, 411 S.E.2d 274 (1991); Herren v. State, 201 Ga. App. 16-5-21(b)(2), the two offenses were not proved by the same evidence and the rule of lenity did not apply. 2d, Obstructing Justice, 52 et seq. Green v. State, 240 Ga. App. - Federal district court did not abuse the court's discretion by imposing the highest possible sentence permitted by 18 U.S.C. Johnson v. State, 264 Ga. App. 843.18. 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. 74, 625 S.E.2d 485 (2005). Jenkins v. State, 310 Ga. App. 834, 449 S.E.2d 532 (1994); Cline v. State, 221 Ga. App. Reid v. State, 339 Ga. App. Jarvis v. State, 294 Ga. App. 16-10-24 when the district court conducted the court's frivolity review. Georgia may have more current or accurate information. 16-10-24(b) because the defendant bit two officers and kicked one several times in the abdomen as the officers were attempting to arrest the defendant; so, the evidence clearly established that the defendant was "offering or doing violence" to the officers at the time of the obstruction. Lemarr v. State, 188 Ga. App. 16-10-24 was supported by sufficient evidence; although an officer was not lawfully discharging the officer's duty when the officer attempted to detain a person without an articulable suspicion of criminal activity, the defendant failed to recognize that the defendant's unprovoked flight, given other suspicious circumstances including the sudden departure of a truck into which the defendant had been leaning when the officer arrived on the scene, gave rise to a reasonable articulable suspicion of criminal activity. 16-10-24. 471, 577 S.E.2d 288 (2003). - Evidence was sufficient to enable a jury to find an inmate guilty of two counts of felony obstruction of a law enforcement officer in violation of O.C.G.A. Evidence adduced at trial authorized any rational trier of fact to find the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of felony obstruction of law enforcement officers in violation of O.C.G.A. Timberlake v. State, 315 Ga. App. Andrews v. State, 307 Ga. App. When the evidence established that the officer never had the opportunity to turn on the officer's emergency lights or siren when following defendant's vehicle, to issue a verbal command within earshot of defendant, or otherwise to communicate a command for defendant to halt, there was insufficient evidence to support a conviction for obstruction of an officer. Reed v. State, 205 Ga. App. State v. Dukes, 279 Ga. App. Jackson v. State, 213 Ga. App. 3, 243 S.E.2d 289 (1978). 500, 552 S.E.2d 97 (2001); Johnson v. State, 255 Ga. App. 860, 534 S.E.2d 544 (2000). - Upon conviction of defendant of three counts of misdemeanor obstruction of a law enforcement officer, since there were three separate victims, the trial court did not err in treating the counts as discrete offenses for sentencing. 312, 480 S.E.2d 614 (1997); Pearson v. State, 224 Ga. App. denied, No. 811, 714 S.E.2d 410 (2011). 682, 523 S.E.2d 610 (1999). WebChoose the Right Synonym for willful. 148, 294 S.E.2d 365 (1982). Get free summaries of new opinions delivered to your inbox! Pugh v. State, 280 Ga. App. 712, 634 S.E.2d 842 (2006). Evidence that after being arrested, the defendant head-butted an officer in the face and yelled death threats at the officer was sufficient to convict the defendant of obstruction of an officer, O.C.G.A. 544, 623 S.E.2d 725 (2005). 16-11-39(a)(3) as it was undisputed that the plaintiff uttered an epithet as the plaintiff was walking away, thus ending any face-to-face confrontation, and that the officer was the only one to hear the phrase. - Jury could find that refusal to provide identification to officer might hinder execution of duties. For annual survey of criminal law, see 56 Mercer L. Rev. State v. 423, 677 S.E.2d 439 (2009). United States v. Linker, F.3d (11th Cir. 874, 354 S.E.2d 202 (1987). In a case involving charges of obstruction of an officer and attempting to elude, a motion for directed verdict was properly denied where the officer was investigating the defendant for driving under the influence and the defendant did not respond to the officer's orders and forced the officer to get a warrant to effectuate an arrest. 289, 491 S.E.2d 500 (1997); Cook v. State, 235 Ga. App. Given the sheriff's uncontradicted statement that the sheriff ordered the streets cleared in the face of large scale rioting, and the evidence that the arrestees - later plaintiffs in a civil rights action - were among those who refused to obey the order and were arrested for obstructing the efforts of police officers to restore order, a jury issue was presented on whether their conduct hindered or impeded the sheriff in the lawful discharge of the sheriff's official duties. 848, 663 S.E.2d 274 (2008); Diaz v. State, 296 Ga. App. - Injured party was not able to recover under O.C.G.A. 16-10-24(a) since a reasonable officer could not have interpreted the conduct as a knowing and willful act of hindrance or obstruction or as a threat to officer safety. Thornton v. State, 353 Ga. App. 24-9-84.1(a)(1) (see now O.C.G.A. However, once the vehicle was lawfully stopped, the officer was allowed to ask for the driver's consent to search the car and no additional probable cause or articulable suspicion was required to simply ask the question and therefore defendant's conviction for obstructing an officer under O.C.G.A. Denny v. State, 222 Ga. App. United States v. Cook, F.3d (11th Cir. 835, 500 S.E.2d 14 (1998). 879, 583 S.E.2d 922 (2003). 384, 801 S.E.2d 82 (2017); State v. Brienza, 350 Ga. App. 691, 78 S.E. Arnold v. State, 249 Ga. App. 673, 534 S.E.2d 132 (2000); Wilder v. State, 243 Ga. App. 183, 564 S.E.2d 789 (2002). Although an officer was working an off-duty job providing security for a store, the officer was in the lawful discharge of the officer's official duties when the officer detained a defendant's girlfriend for shoplifting and also for purposes of charging the defendant with misdemeanor obstruction after the defendant disobeyed the officer by removing the girlfriend's car from the store parking lot. 689, 423 S.E.2d 427 (1992); Carter v. State, 222 Ga. App. Evidence supported defendant's obstruction of a law enforcement officer conviction because the officers were acting within the lawful discharge of their duties in arresting defendant for theft under either O.C.G.A. 764, 331 S.E.2d 99 (1985). Johnson v. State, 330 Ga. App. 677, 225 S.E.2d 95 (1976); United States v. Gidley, 527 F.2d 1345 (5th Cir. 291, 638 S.E.2d 430 (2006). S92C1446, 1992 Ga. LEXIS 865 (1992). Prather v. State, 279 Ga. App. Phillips v. State, 269 Ga. App. 256, 439 S.E.2d 510 (1993); Okongwu v. State, 220 Ga. App. 16-11-37(a) based upon the suspect's admission to making the statement that the defendant was "going to have his people get" the officer and that the defendant was going or wanted to "clip" the officer; the officer was entitled to qualified immunity on the suspect's related false arrest claim under 42 U.S.C. Summary judgment based on qualified immunity was properly denied in a 42 U.S.C. Criminal and civil liability of civilians and police officers concerning recording of police actions, 84 A.L.R.6th 89. 104, 508 S.E.2d 473 (1998); Askew v. State, 248 Ga. App. 16-10-24 and16-10-25. Given the evidence provided by law enforcement that: (1) the defendant hindered and obstructed one officer in the lawful discharge of that officer's duties while the officer went to check on the welfare of the defendant's wife; (2) the defendant's act of resisting the other officer while that officer was arresting the defendant; and (3) the defendant's act of breaking off the interior door handle of the patrol vehicle and forcing the vehicle's window off the window's frame, the defendant's convictions for both felony and misdemeanor obstruction of an officer and a felony count of interfering with government property were upheld on appeal. Evidence was sufficient to support a defendant's conviction for felony obstruction of a law enforcement officer in violation of O.C.G.A. Requested jury instruction on an unlawful arrest claim incorrectly stated the law; a statement that a detainee was not required to respond to an officer's questions was contrary to Georgia law as failure to identify oneself could constitute obstruction. 423, 356 S.E.2d 55 (1987); Banks v. State, 187 Ga. App. What constitutes obstructing or resisting an officer, in the absence of actual force, 44 A.L.R.3d 1018. 16-10-24(b) since the issue of whether the police officers provided inconsistent testimony was for the jury to decide, the defendant admitted that the defendant knew that the individual who defendant struck was a police officer, there was no requirement of proving actual injury as an element of the offense, and the officers were in lawful discharge of their duties at the time of the alleged obstruction because the officers had probable cause to arrest the defendant on a probation violation warrant; upon the officer approaching the defendant, the defendant fled and the defendant struggled, punched, and hit the officers as the officers tried to arrest the defendant. 263, 793 S.E.2d 156 (2016). Something more than mere disagreement or remonstrance must be shown. 137, 633 S.E.2d 439 (2006). Lepone-Dempsey v. Carroll County Comm'Rs, F.3d (11th Cir. 688, 385 S.E.2d 772 (1989); Gordon v. State, 199 Ga. App. 16-10-24(a), was supported by sufficient evidence as the defendant was advised by an officer that the defendant was under arrest, whereupon the defendant resisted the officer's handcuffing attempts, ran from the officer, and failed to comply with the directive to stop. 16-10-24. - Because injuring another's ankle amounted to doing violence, the defendant's convictions for felony obstruction merged into aggravated battery; thus, the defendant was entitled to resentencing. Please check official sources. 228, 666 S.E.2d 594 (2008). 45, 749 S.E.2d 45 (2013). 16-10-24(b); actual violence or injury to an officer was not necessary. Todd v. Byrd, 283 Ga. App. The prohibition of 18 U.S.C. Defenses for Obstruction of Justice in Atlanta Georgia From Yeargan & Kert, LLC Brown v. State, 293 Ga. App. Defendant's conviction for misdemeanor obstruction of a law enforcement officer, in violation of O.C.G.A. The evidence was sufficient to convict the defendant of obstruction of a police officer in violation of 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. - Counts of felony obstruction of an officer and misdemeanor obstruction of an officer did not merge; with regard to the felony, the defendant struck and kicked one officer, and with regard to the misdemeanor, the defendant refused to comply with the commands of a second officer. Evidence that the defendant, age 35, met a girl online whom the defendant believed was 15, that the defendant made numerous comments about how the defendant could get in trouble or go to jail, that the defendant engaged in sexually explicit conversations and directed the child to pornography sites showing black men having sex with white women, that the defendant drove to an arranged meeting place, and, that, when officers appeared, the defendant fled, was sufficient to convict defendant of violating O.C.G.A. Wilson v. State, 261 Ga. App. Isaac Dant, Highway 17 aggravated assault, reckless driving, fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer, no insurance, speeding in excess of maximum limits and registration and license requirements 374, 226 S.E.2d 471 (1976). - Crimes of felony obstruction of a law enforcement officer and simple battery on a law enforcement officer did not address the same criminal conduct, there was no ambiguity created by different punishments being set forth for the same crime, and the rule of lenity did not apply; although the defendant was convicted of both charged crimes, the trial court properly merged the misdemeanor battery conviction into the felony obstruction conviction. 246, 268 S.E.2d 74 (1980); Dumas v. State, 159 Ga. App. 760, 500 S.E.2d 627 (1998); Wilson v. State, 233 Ga. 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