241 Ga. App. 593 - Dickerson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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9 state decisions

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1. “As the statute obligates the State to give the [specified] information to the defendant, it has a duty to attempt to obtain the information about its witnesses. The State cannot fulfill its obligation by simply looking in its file. The statute clearly requires the parties to provide four pieces of information, and only in the rarest of circumstances should the information truly be unavailable. . . . That burden is the cost to the parties of receiving the benefits of the discovery process. The legislature intended for both sides to comply with the law, and the statute contemplates a reasonable effort by both sides to meet their statutory obligations.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Dickerson

2. “[t]he task of the issuing magistrate is simply to make a practical, common-sense decision whether, given all the circumstances set forth in the affidavit before him, including the veracity and basis of knowledge of persons supplying hearsay information, there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place. And the duty of a reviewing court is simply to ensure that the magistrate had a substantial basis for concluding that probable cause existed. 4”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 270 Ga. App. 176 - Brown v. State