266 Ga. App. 856 - Crosby v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Brown v. State · 186 Ga. App. 87 - State v. Adams · 220 Ga. App. 133 - State v. Burnett · 203 Ga. App. 69 - State v. Bryant
Most-quoted passages
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“The plain view exception applies when the police officer had a prior justification for an intrusion in the course of which he came inadvertently across a piece of evidence incriminating the accused. In Georgia, "this principle extends to the observation of evidence in plain view inside automobiles when the officer was lawfully at the place where he observed the incriminating evidence." The viewing need not be motivated by any articulable suspicion. On the contrary, law enforcement officers simply have the right to look into automobiles, so long as they have a legitimate reason and are looking from a place in which they have a right to be (e.g., a street or roadside). Any incriminating evidence theyhave the fortune to see in plain view may be seized and later admitted as evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“this principle extends to the observation of evidence in plain view inside automobiles when the officer was lawfully at the place where he observed the incriminating evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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