304 Ga. App. 891 - Wilder v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “[A]n investigating officer received information from the victim and another woman, April Quick, that Wilder had a briefcase containing videotapes of the victim and Wilder engaging in sex acts, and that the briefcase was at the home of Wilder’s friend, Judy Malin. Malin testified that Wilder had been at her home with the victim on one occasion and that, on another occasion, Wilder left a locked briefcase at her home and told her he would “pick it back up later.” Malin stated further the briefcase was at her home for several months before she was contacted by the officer who asked that she turn it over to him. She testified that she was reluctant, confused, and frightened, but that she “felt like she was cooperating with whatever needed to be done” and that she wanted the briefcase “out of my house.” The officer requested that Quick retrieve the briefcase from Mai in’s home and bring it to him. Quick testified that when she gave him the briefcase, the officer gave her $20 “for my gas because I had no gas.” Once the officer had possession of the briefcase, he obtained a search warrant to search its contents. Inside the briefcase officers found DVDs containing explicit images of the victim, videotapes containing images of Wilder and the victim engaging in sexual intercourse, and copies of portions of the Georgia Code (downloaded while the victim was 15 years old) defining sodomy, statutory rape, and child molestation with the text “under the age of 16 years” highlighted.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wilder v. State

2. “[b]ecause the contents of the briefcase were seized pursuant to a valid search warrant based upon information wholly independent from law enforcement’s illegal use of Malin and Quick to obtain the briefcase, [the evidence] meets the criteria for admissibility under the independent source doctrine. [Cits.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wilder v. State