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Owens v. State

Citations

  • 655 S.E.2d 244
  • 288 Ga. App. 771
  • 2007 Fulton County D. Rep. 3549
  • 2007 Ga. App. LEXIS 1218

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  • screaming, threatening, swinging, and kicking at officers constituted felony obstruction of an officer, and it was not ineffective assistance of counsel to fail to request a charge for misdemeanor obstruction based on the facts presented at trial
  • no error resulted from trial court’s failure to charge on lesser included charge when trial counsel made strategic decision against lesser included charge based upon “all or nothing” defense strategy
  • no error resulted from trial court’s failure to charge on lesser included charge when trial counsel made strategic decision against lesser included charge based upon “all or nothing” defense strategy

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Judges: Barnes, Smith, Miller

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