201 Ga. App. 71 - Otwell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “held that an arrest warrant as opposed to a search warrant is inadequate to protect the Fourth Amendment interests of persons not named in the warrant, when their homes are searched without their consent and in the absence of exigent circumstances. The Supreme Court noted that `Whatever practical problems (in requiring a search warrant in such cases) cannot out-weigh the constitutional interests at stake ... (T)he right protected—that of presumptively innocent people to be secure in their homes from unjustified, forcible intrusions by the Government—is weighty.' Steagald, supra, 451 U.S. at 222 [ 101 S.Ct. at 1653 ].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 217 Ga. App. 889 - King v. State

2. “[t]he best that can be said is that the officers merely walked in without seeking permission.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 217 Ga. App. 889 - King v. State