· 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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