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Gray v. State

Citations

  • 562 S.E.2d 712
  • 254 Ga. App. 487
  • 2002 Fulton County D. Rep. 401
  • 2002 Ga. App. LEXIS 106

How courts have described this case

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  • applying both OCGA §§ 16-13-30 (c) and 17-10-7 (a) to conviction for possession of cocaine, where it was fourth felony conviction
  • suspect had no expectation of privacy in bag of illegal drugs that he discarded while fleeing from police, even if officers who stopped car acted without articulable suspicion of criminal activity
  • suspect had no expectation of privacy in bag of illegal drugs that he discarded while fleeing from police, even if officers who stopped car acted without articulable suspicion of criminal activity
  • “Although Gray’s vehicle was signaled to stop in a police show of authority, Gray immediately fled the car[; he] had not submitted to authority, nor was he in physical custody, when his car was stopped or when he discarded the paper bag containing the illegal drugs.”
  • “Although Gray's vehicle was signaled to stop in a police show of authority, Gray immediately fled the car[; 8 he] had not submitted to authority, nor was he in physical custody, when his car was stopped or when he discarded the paper bag containing the illegal drugs.”

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Judges: Mikell, Blackburn, Pope

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