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Johnson v. Commonwealth

Citations

  • 496 S.E.2d 143
  • 26 Va. App. 674
  • 1998 Va. App. LEXIS 121

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that all evidence obtained by the police pursuant to an unlawful search in violation of the Fourth Amendment “should have been excluded, and the trial court erred in denying the motion to suppress”
  • holding -3- fact that officers have made a display of force or show of authority does not preclude finding of voluntary consent to search
  • noting that an area “ ‘need be neither “open” nor a “field” as those terms are used in common speech’ ” in order to be so classified for Fourth Amendment purposes (quoting Dow Chem. Co. v. United States, 476 U.S. 227, 236, 106 S.Ct. 1819, 1825, 90 L.Ed.2d 226 (1986))
  • in a commercial business property, no-trespassing signs placed in warehouse and adjacent dock areas

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Judges: Baker, Bray, Overton

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