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Lewis v. State

Citations

  • 504 S.E.2d 732
  • 233 Ga. App. 560
  • 98 Fulton County D. Rep. 2820
  • 1998 Ga. App. LEXIS 996

How courts have described this case

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  • affirming the denial of a motion to suppress because there was no evidence that the defendant “asserted a possessory or proprietary interest in the premises” at issue
  • testimony indicating that police field test showing confiscated substance to be cocaine was sufficient, without expert testimony, for jury to conclude that it was cocaine
  • “[t]he question of whether reasonable suspicion exists to stop a vehicle must be measured by current knowledge,” that is, at the moment the stop is made and not hindsight
  • after leaving site of abandoned, unlit development known for drug trafficking, defendant began driving his car in “erratic” manner in attempts to avoid the police
  • a party lacks standing to challenge a police officer’s seizure of property where the party fails to assert a “possessory interest... in the property seized”
  • a party lacks standing to challenge a police officer’s seizure of property where the party fails to assert a “possessory interest . . . in the property seized”

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Judges: Beasley, Andrews, Blackburn, McMurray, Ruffin, Eldridge

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