267 Ga. App. 900 - Rocco v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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11 state decisions

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1. “A search conducted pursuant to a special condition of probation need not be made as a routine incident of the probation supervision process. The rule is that there must be some conduct reasonably suggestive of criminal activity to trigger the search. It can be prompted by a good-faith suspicion, arising from routine police investigative work. Accordingly as a general rule, the police can search a probationer, who is subject to such a special condition of probation, at any time, day or night, and with or without a warrant, provided there exists a reasonable or good-faith suspicion for search, that is, the police must not merely be acting in bad faith or in an arbitrary and capricious manner (such as searching to harass probationer).”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 282 Ga. App. 191 - State v. Cauley · 287 Ga. App. 163 - Thomas v. State