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Holmes v. State

Citations

  • 601 S.E.2d 134
  • 267 Ga. App. 651
  • 2004 Fulton County D. Rep. 1946
  • 2004 Ga. App. LEXIS 747

How courts have described this case

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  • under the “plain feel” doctrine, “contraband identified through an officer’s sense of touch in the course of a lawful Terry patdown may be seized”
  • defendant’s nervous behavior inside residence justified pat-down search to ensure defendant was not armed
  • nervousness of defendant, combined with his location at a home where suspected drug sales were taking place and officer’s experience that weapons were often present when drugs were involved, authorized pat-down

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Judges: Adams, Ruffin, Eldridge

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