Lester v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding plain-feel exception applied even though the officer “could not specifically identify the substance during the pat-down” but because of his experience knew it “was a narcotic packaged in the customary way for drug transport”
• officer had reasonable, articulable suspicion of criminal activity, justifying brief detention, when he was able to corroborate details given to police dispatcher by citizen

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Martin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-05-02· cited 12×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-02-11· cited 9×
• May v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-23· cited 2×
• State of Iowa v. Earnest Jones Hunt, Jr.
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2021-11-03

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Gomez
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-03-22· cited 31×
• Tukes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-01-25· cited 17×
• Woods v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-09-01· cited 15×
• Ward v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-02-28· cited 10×
• Durden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-02-07· cited 9×
• State v. Harden
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-05-12· cited 9×
• Bianco v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-08-21· cited 5×
• Kinder v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-08-11· cited 4×