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Goodwin v. State

Citations

  • 474 S.E.2d 84
  • 222 Ga. App. 285
  • 96 Fulton County D. Rep. 2748
  • 1996 Ga. App. LEXIS 754

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that “all law enforcement officers have, the general duty to enforce the law and maintain the peace” and that “[t]hey carry this duty 24 hours a day, on and off duty”
  • “That appellant was in a different car and county does not negate the relevance of the prior DUI, as slight variances are comprehended by Kirkland”
  • off-duty officer working as a security guard at a hotel was not acting as a police officer when, pursuant to employer’s instructions, he stopped each car driving onto the premises to ask whether the occupants were hotel guests
  • off-duty officer working as a security guard at a hotel was not acting as a police officer when, pursuant to employer’s instructions, he stopped each car driving onto the premises to ask whether the occupants were hotel guests

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Judges: Birdsong, Blackburn, Banke

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