Ginn v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
August 1999
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · 195 Ga. App. 732 - Morgan v. State · 202 Ga. App. 204 - Hayes v. State · 229 Ga. App. 450 - Buffington v. State · 223 Ga. App. 721 - Sutton v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“Once a defendant has been stopped for violating a traffic law, a police officer is entitled to execute a pat-down search for weapons. Buffington v. State, 229 Ga. App. 450, 451 ( 494 SE2d 272 ) (1997). This pat-down search based on Terry v. Ohio, [supra,] does not require consent. Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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