Frasier v. State, 295 Ga. App. An officer testified that the officers at the scene were in a patrol or police car, and the defendant testified that a caller summoned "the law" and that the defendant saw a police car come up. Hudson v. State, 135 Ga. App. When an initial stop was lawful and the defendant failed to stop when ordered to do so, there was probable cause to believe O.C.G.A. 223, 679 S.E.2d 790 (2009). Appx. Gordon v. State, 337 Ga. App. 16-10-24(a); it was not an inconsistent verdict that the jury acquitted the defendant of felony obstruction charges under O.C.G.A. - Contrary to the defendant's claim, police officers were lawfully discharging their official duties when the officers responded to a 911 call by the defendant's mother regarding the defendant's suicidal and erratic behavior and, thus, the evidence supported the defendant's conviction for obstructing law enforcement. Carlson v. State, 280 Ga. App. - Evidence supported the defendant's conviction for malice murder, burglary, and hindering a police officer because the defendant was at the back door of the mother's home without authorization, and fled when an officer tried to handcuff the defendant, the defendant's mother was found dead from massive head injuries, and the mother's rings, a lawn mower blade, and a hatchet were found on the defendant's person or stashed in bags outside the home. 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. 16-10-24(a), and terroristic threats, O.C.G.A. This evidence was sufficient to support the defendant's conviction of misdemeanor obstruction of an officer, O.C.G.A. Hudson v. State, 135 Ga. App. 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. Reid v. State, 339 Ga. App. 183, 564 S.E.2d 789 (2002). 562, 436 S.E.2d 752 (1993). 672, 829 S.E.2d 894 (2019). 550, 529 S.E.2d 381 (2000). Webct.2 : willful obstruction of law enforcement officers - misdemeanor ct.3 : driving while license suspended or revoked ct.4 : giving false name, address, or birthdate to law - Evidence that the defendant's creation of a fake Facebook account after the child was reported missing resulted in three investigators wasting twelve hours looking in the wrong direction for the juvenile and hindered law enforcement's ability to track the child's possible whereabouts for about six hours was sufficient to support the defendant's conviction for obstruction of justice. - 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. The charge as a whole adequately covered the principle of law and allowed the defendant to argue that the defendant should have been acquitted because the state proved only disagreement or remonstrance. 16-10-24, based on the defendant's conduct of fleeing into the house and hiding in the attic when the police officers arrived; thus, the defendant hampered and delayed the police in the lawful execution of police duty. denied, No. 482, 669 S.E.2d 477 (2008). Clark v. State, 243 Ga. App. Refusing to assist prison officers in arresting escaped convicts. 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. 664, 678 S.E.2d 128 (2009). Martin v. State, 291 Ga. App. Smith v. State, 294 Ga. App. An essential element In the Interest of M.M., 265 Ga. App. 16-7-24, for which defendant was convicted; a comparison of these two offenses shows that they have entirely different elements and require proof of entirely different facts. Recent arrests around the county. 66, 653 S.E.2d 358 (2007). Obstruction of justice is a fact-based offense under Georgia law. Arsenault v. State, 257 Ga. App. Jones v. State, 242 Ga. App. 156, 427 S.E.2d 532 (1993). 40-6-202 and because the officer could search the passenger compartment of the car incident to the arrest of the first defendant. Brown v. State, 240 Ga. App. - Defendant's sentence for obstruction of a law enforcement officer of 12 months confinement to be served on probation following 60 days of confinement, $1,500 in fines, 100 hours of community service, and a mental health evaluation was within the statutory limits set by O.C.G.A. denied, 136 S. Ct. 991, 194 L. Ed. Sufficient evidence supported convictions of aggravated assault, aggravated assault on a peace officer, obstruction of a law enforcement officer, interference with government property, and criminal trespass after the defendant admitted obstructing officers and damaging a patrol car and the victim's vehicle; although the defendant denied assaulting the victim and the responding officer, the jury was authorized to reject the defendant's testimony. 16-10-24(b) after entering plaintiff's home without a warrant to search for the subject of a civil commitment order, in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, while the deputy's entry into the arrestee's home was unlawful, the deputy was entitled to qualified immunity as the commitment order's averments indicated the subject was a danger to oneself and others and a reasonable officer could have interpreted those averments as indicating an emergency situation. Taylor v. State, 326 Ga. App. Trial court did not err in convicting the defendant of obstruction of an officer in violation of O.C.G.A. Therefore, the defendant was not justified in elbowing the officer and resisting arrest. Lewis v. State, 271 Ga. App. Curtis v. State, 285 Ga. App. Because sufficient evidence was presented that the defendant physically assaulted an off-duty sheriff's officer prior to arrest and continued to resist and obstruct the officer's official duties thereafter, the defendant was properly denied an acquittal and a new trial; moreover, given that the trial court properly charged the jury on the obstruction offense, explaining that a person committed the offense by knowingly and willfully obstructing or hindering a law enforcement officer in the lawful discharge of that officer's official duties, nothing beyond such was required. 512, 651 S.E.2d 817 (2007). - Officer's second-tier Terry frisk of defendant did not constitute an illegal detention considering all of the circumstances including the defendant's repeated refusal to keep the defendant's hands away from the pockets of the defendant's baggy clothes at the officer's request, defendant's nervous demeanor, the presence of two companions, and the officer's knowledge of violent crime in the area. 1290. 16-10-24(b). 579, 61 S.E. 77, 637 S.E.2d 806 (2006). Buruca v. State, 278 Ga. App. Beckom v. State, 286 Ga. App. 16-10-24 because the evidence authorized the jury to find that the defendant had obstructed or hindered two officers; there was evidence that although the defendant had been informed of the purpose of the encounter, the defendant persisted in refusing to provide a driver's license, assumed a physically aggressive stance, and refused to comply with commands to stop fighting or resisting, and there also was evidence that after being informed that the defendant was under arrest for obstruction, the defendant physically resisted the arrest. - Trial court did not improperly increase the defendant's sentence because, although the trial court orally declared that the defendant would serve two concurrent 12-month sentences for the battery and obstruction convictions, and the defendant was taken into custody immediately, on the same day, before the defendant was taken into custody and began to serve the defendant's sentence, the trial court signed a written sentence stating that the defendant would serve two consecutive 12-month sentences for the two convictions. 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. Arnold v. State, 315 Ga. App. Thornton v. State, 353 Ga. App. 16-10-24. Smith v. LePage, 834 F.3d 1285 (11th Cir. Moreover, the fact that an officer has managed to apply handcuffs to a struggling arrestee does not foreclose continuing efforts to resist arrest, such as refusing to enter a patrol car or continuing to struggle with officers. 153, 676 S.E.2d 821 (2009). 2d 373 (2004). 807, 534 S.E.2d 487 (2000); Patterson v. State, 244 Ga. App. Tankersley v. State, 155 Ga. App. Hambrick v. State, 242 Ga. App. California Penal Code 148a1 PC is the California statute that defines the crime of resisting arrest.. 614, 347 S.E.2d 354 (1986); In re M.E.H., 180 Ga. App. 850, 738 S.E.2d 679 (2013); Hyman v. State, 320 Ga. App. Jamaarques Omaurion Cripps Terroristic Threats and Acts. As the jury was entitled to find that the defendant's refusal to obey the officer's commands hindered or obstructed the officer, the evidence was sufficient to support the defendant's conviction of obstruction of a law enforcement officer. 374, 226 S.E.2d 471 (1976). Williams v. State, 196 Ga. App. When the defendant refused to answer an officer's questions and instead exercised the right to walk away, the officer lacked probable cause to justify an arrest for obstruction, even after the defendant began running because the defendant had the right to avoid the first-tier police-citizen encounter. 16-10-24(a). Alex v. State, 220 Ga. App. - Sufficient evidence supported the defendant's convictions of felony and misdemeanor obstruction of an officer and driving without carrying a license because the on-duty and uniformed conservation ranger had authority to arrest and was authorized to enforce traffic offenses and the state showed that the ranger was acting within the lawful discharge of official duties when the defendant was asked to turn down the music from the vehicle. 25, 2011). Wells v. State, 297 Ga. App. 735, 841 S.E.2d 82 (2020). Wilson v. State, 261 Ga. App. 852, 350 S.E.2d 835 (1986); Robinson v. State, 182 Ga. App. 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. 324, 628 S.E.2d 730 (2006). - Defendant was a suspect in a shooting. 16-10-24(a), and there was no error in concluding that the deputy had a duty to intervene in an unlawful arrest. 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