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Andrews v. State

Citations

  • 471 S.E.2d 567
  • 221 Ga. App. 492
  • 96 Fulton County D. Rep. 2233
  • 1996 Ga. App. LEXIS 540

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  • affirming denial of motion to suppress where officer with seven years of experience in narcotics who conducted pat-down of defendant testified that through defendant’s shorts, he felt what was immediately apparent to him as a large cookie of crack cocaine
  • officer with seven years' experience who had made thousands of arrests immediately knew object he felt was cookie of crack cocaine
  • officer with seven years' experience who had made thousands of arrests immediately knew object he felt was cookie of crack cocaine
  • seizure of cookie of crack cocaine under “plain feel” doctrine valid where officer squeezed the object in defendant’s shorts to confirm his initial belief that it was crack cocaine
  • seizure of a \cookie\ of crack cocaine under the \plain feel\ doctrine was valid where the officer squeezed the object in the defendant's shorts to confirm his initial belief that it was crack cocaine
  • seizure of a “cookie” of crack cocaine under the “plain feel” doctrine was valid where the officer squeezed the object in the defendant’s shorts to confirm his initial belief that it was crack cocaine

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Judges: Beasley, Birdsong, Blackburn

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