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· 8/31/1993

Gwinn v. Commonwealth

Citations

  • 434 S.E.2d 901
  • 16 Va. App. 972
  • 10 Va. Law Rep. 167
  • 1993 Va. App. LEXIS 387

How courts have described this case

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  • holding -8- that the magistrate could infer from defendant’s repeated drug transactions that evidence of drug-dealing was in his home
  • upholding the search warrant because there was a fair probability that drugs would be found in the motel room where a drug dealer resided
  • Magistrate reasonably could infer the probability that drugs or other evidence of suspected drag-related activity would be found in defendant’s residence
  • magistrate \need only conclude that it would be - 7 - reasonable to seek the evidence in the place indicated in the affidavit\

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Judges: Coleman

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