- Officers who were summoned to the scene of a domestic disturbance and saw defendant forcibly march defendant's family into their dwelling, quite possibly at gunpoint, had probable cause to effectuate a warrantless arrest for a battery constituting a family violence and, thus, were engaged in the performance of official duties for purposes of O.C.G.A. - In a 42 U.S.C. 16-10-24) to include forms of speech which may reasonably be interpreted as a threat of violence and which amount to an obstruction or hindrance. 18 U.S.C. Mangum v. State, 228 Ga. App. 16-13-30(b), and obstructing or hindering law enforcement officers, O.C.G.A. 582, 608 S.E.2d 540 (2004). Although the evidence was sufficient to show that defendant stalked the victim and obstructed an officer by fleeing in violation of O.C.G.A. Jones v. State, 242 Ga. App. When defendant gave false identifying information to officers after a traffic stop, the defendant provided the officers with probable cause for arrest; it followed that the evidence was sufficient to sustain the defendant's conviction. Willful= means to do it and the person has no defense to prove otherwise (i.e abnormality of mind or insanity or accident) Unlawful= the willful act is in breach (breaks) a - When defendant contended that the trial court erred in failing to charge the jury on the felony offense of obstruction of a law enforcement officer, thereby precluding defendant's counsel from arguing to the jury the absence of the elements of the offense, and when the record indicated that the trial court fully instructed the jury on the misdemeanor grade of the offense of obstruction of a law enforcement officer, since the defendant was not accused of committing the felony offense of obstruction of a law enforcement officer, it was unnecessary to so charge the jury. 20, 2017)(Unpublished). 1, 692 S.E.2d 682 (2010). Plaintiff's refusal to comply with the deputy's instructions, as well as plaintiff's belligerent and confrontational behavior, provided ample probable cause to arrest plaintiff for violating O.C.G.A. 51-1-6 for the declarant's alleged violation of the criminal statutes O.C.G.A. 386, 714 S.E.2d 31 (2011). 607, 602 S.E.2d 327 (2004); Monas v. State, 270 Ga. App. 475, 487 S.E.2d 86 (1997); Veal v. State, 226 Ga. App. 673, 534 S.E.2d 132 (2000); Wilder v. State, 243 Ga. App. Tuggle v. State, 236 Ga. App. An officer had probable cause to arrest the defendant for disorderly conduct, O.C.G.A. After an officer stopped a vehicle on the reasonable suspicion that the vehicle was being driven without a proper tag, and possibly for investigation of drug possession, refusal of defendant to provide identification in such circumstances could be the basis for prosecution under O.C.G.A. Cited in Shaw v. Jones, 226 Ga. 291, 174 S.E.2d 444 (1970); Shaw v. State, 121 Ga. App. 843.05. Further, the defendant had not been made aware that the defendant was going to be arrested for the robbery being investigated by the deputy. 344, 631 S.E.2d 383 (2006). 606, 462 S.E.2d 630 (1995); Strickland v. State, 221 Ga. App. Skop v. City of Atlanta, 485 F.3d 1130 (11th Cir. 675, 705 S.E.2d 906 (2011). United States v. Linker, F.3d (11th Cir. 209, 294 S.E.2d 305 (1982). 209, 622 S.E.2d 887 (2005). 16-10-24(b). 2d 12 (U.S. 2016), cert. Hunter v. State, 4 Ga. App. Williams v. State, 307 Ga. App. 291, 638 S.E.2d 430 (2006). 75, 766 S.E.2d 533 (2014). 232, 561 S.E.2d 879 (2002). 658, 350 S.E.2d 41 (1986); Salter v. State, 187 Ga. App. Wilson v. Attaway, 757 F.2d 1227 (11th Cir. 16-4-1 (attempt),16-6-4 (child molestation),16-6-5 (enticement of a child), and16-10-24 (obstruction). Evidence was sufficient to convict the defendant of three counts of felony obstruction because a jury could reasonably conclude that, when the defendant cried out immediately after the single shot was fired by the defendant's grandfather, the defendant was encouraging the grandfather to discharge the revolver for a second time at or near the officers before they had succeeded in returning to safety, and was thus offering violence to those officers; and, when the defendant shouted out immediately after the single shot was fired, the arresting deputies were forced to extinguish their flashlights so as to prevent being seen and shot by the grandfather, thus hindering their efforts to secure the defendant's arrest. Sufficient evidence supported the defendant's conviction for obstruction and fleeing because the evidence showed that both deputies were in uniform and driving marked patrol vehicles when the deputies ordered the defendant to stop and the defendant ignored those commands while the deputies were attempting to conduct, with justification, at the very least a second-tier detention of the defendant. 40, 692 S.E.2d 708 (2010). 286, 581 S.E.2d 313 (2003). 73 (2017). 664, 678 S.E.2d 128 (2009). 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. WebIf (1) the defendant willfully obstructed or impeded, or attempted to obstruct or impede, the administration of justice with respect to the investigation, prosecution, or sentencing of the instant offense of conviction, and (2) the obstructive conduct related to (A) the defendants offense of conviction and any relevant conduct; or (B) a closely related offense, increase Testimony of an arresting officer that the defendant acted as if the defendant were going to flee and generally refused to cooperate with police, and that this conduct hindered the officer in making the arrest was sufficient to convict the defendant of obstruction of an officer. Dulcio v. State, 297 Ga. App. Davis v. State, 308 Ga. App. 847, 673 S.E.2d 321 (2009). 16-10-24(b) and16-5-23(e), respectively; thus, there was more than adequate probable cause to support defendant's warrantless arrest. Mar. 228, 666 S.E.2d 594 (2008). 512, 651 S.E.2d 817 (2007). 16-8-2 or O.C.G.A. Curtis v. State, 285 Ga. App. Helton v. State, 284 Ga. App. 798, 728 S.E.2d 317 (2012). In the Interest of D.B., 284 Ga. App. Evidence was insufficient to support the defendant's misdemeanor conviction for obstruction of an officer because the defendant was charged with knowingly and wilfully obstructing and hindering a law enforcement officer in the lawful discharge of official duties by running from the officer as the officer attempted to take the defendant into custody; although the evidence established that the officer saw the defendant running and followed the defendant in a marked patrol car, the officer's own testimony established that the defendant stopped immediately upon seeing the police vehicle and that the defendant immediately complied with the officer's order to stop. Former Code 1933, 26-2505 (see now O.C.G.A. An officer testified that if the officer determined, after completing the officer's consent frisk, that the defendant had no weapons, the defendant was free to leave. Criminal and civil liability of civilians and police officers concerning recording of police actions, 84 A.L.R.6th 89. 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. Draper v. Reynolds, 369 F.3d 1270 (11th Cir. Something more than mere disagreement or remonstrance must be shown. 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. WebAccording to RCW 9A.76.020, a person is guilty of obstructing a law enforcement officer if he willfully hinders, delays, or obstructs any law enforcement officer in the discharge of his or her official powers or duties. - 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. Jarvis v. State, 294 Ga. App. 209, 422 S.E.2d 15, cert. Michael Farmer appointed to State Board of Pharmacy. Duncan v. State, 163 Ga. App. Ga. L. 2017, p. 500, 1-1/SB 160, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: "This Act shall be known and may be cited as the 'Back the Badge Act of 2017.'". 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. 432, 626 S.E.2d 626 (2006). 16-10-24(b): the defendant, incarcerated in a county jail, repeatedly refused to obey a corrections officer's commands to take only one food tray at meal time, struck the officer, wrestled the officer to the floor, and choked the officer until the defendant was tasered. Griffin v. State, 281 Ga. App. Alvarez v. State, 312 Ga. App. Apr. 650, 629 S.E.2d 438 (2006). Martinez v. State, 222 Ga. App. 903, 411 S.E.2d 274 (1991); Herren v. State, 201 Ga. App. 802, 644 S.E.2d 898 (2007). 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. Whoever knowingly and willfully resists, obstructs, or opposes 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 by knowingly and willfully throwing, projecting, or expelling human or animal blood, urine, feces, vomitus, or seminal fluid on or at such individual shall be guilty of a felony and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment for not less than one year nor more than five years. - Defendant's conviction for misdemeanor obstruction was supported by the evidence which showed that after learning that the defendant's girlfriend had been detained for shoplifting and being told by the off-duty police officer who had detained the girlfriend that the defendant should not move the girlfriend's car as the officer needed the car for the officer's investigation, the defendant had a whispered conversation with the girlfriend after which the defendant had a friend remove the car from the parking lot, and that it took over an hour for the defendant to have the car returned as directed by the officer; the state was not required to prove forcible resistance or a threat of violence. Evidence that the defendant refused to get into a patrol car and struggled with two officers, then told the defendant's spouse, "I will kill you when I get out of jail," supported the defendant's convictions of terroristic threats and obstructing or hindering a law enforcement officer under O.C.G.A. WebWPIC 120.02.01 Obstructing a Law Enforcement OfficerWillfullyDefinition Willfully means to purposefully act with knowledge that this action will hinder, delay, or obstruct a Lepone-Dempsey v. Carroll County Comm'Rs, F.3d (11th Cir. Obstruction of a Law Enforcement Officer can be charged as a misdemeanor or as felony. 66, 653 S.E.2d 358 (2007). Todd v. Byrd, 283 Ga. App. 148, 294 S.E.2d 365 (1982). Despite the defendant's challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence, specifically, that no evidence showed the malice element of a cruelty-to-children offense, and that the evidence failed to show the defendant harmed the police officer to support an obstruction offense, convictions on those offenses were upheld on appeal as: (1) the severity of the bite marks inflicted on the child victim allowed the court to infer malice; (2) actual harm to the officer was not an essential element of an obstruction charge; and (3) the defendant's act of swinging at the officer's face during an effort to resist arrest supported an obstruction. 73, 498 S.E.2d 552 (1998). Arsenault v. State, 257 Ga. App. 289, 491 S.E.2d 500 (1997); Cook v. State, 235 Ga. 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