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Holt v. State

Citations

  • 487 S.E.2d 629
  • 227 Ga. App. 46
  • 97 Fulton County D. Rep. 2308
  • 1997 Ga. App. LEXIS 738

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that an officer lacked authority to request identification from a passenger in the absence of a reasonable basis for believing that the passenger was engaged in criminal activity
  • holding that an officer lacked authority to request identification from a passenger in the absence of a reasonable basis for believing that the passenger was engaged in criminal activity
  • unsuspected passenger’s refusal to give accurate identification to officer was not a basis for an obstruction charge
  • officer who questioned defendant without a particularized reason therefor was not lawfully discharging his “official duties”
  • “[T]he United States Supreme Court [has] held that a law[-]enforcement officer may, as a matter of personal safety, order passengers out of a lawfully stopped vehicle.”

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Judges: McMurray, Banke, Ruffin, Eldridge, Andrews, Birdsong, Smith

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