236 Ga. App. 302 - Corley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
September 2010
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Minnesota v. Dickerson · Williams v. State · 195 Ga. App. 732 - Morgan v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“Unlike a full search, a frisk is conducted solely for the purpose of insuring the safety of the officer and of others nearby, not to procure evidence for use at a subsequent trial. It must therefore be confined in scope to an intrusion reasonably designed to discover guns, knives, clubs, or other hidden instruments for the assault of the police officer. In other words, an extended search, exceeding the purpose of the frisk, would be constitutionally unreasonable, and any evidence thereby obtained must be excluded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“intrude beneath the surface only if he comes upon something which feels like a weapon. An officer who exceeds a pat-down without first discovering an object which feels reasonably like a knife, gun, or club must be able to point to specific and articulable facts which reasonably support a suspicion that the particular suspect is armed with an atypical weapon which would feel like the object felt during the pat-down.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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