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Moran v. State

Citations

  • 318 S.E.2d 716
  • 170 Ga. App. 837
  • 1984 Ga. App. LEXIS 2931

How courts have described this case

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

  • for charge of trafficking in cocaine State not required to allege or prove defendant had intent to distribute cocaine; thus, language of “intent to distribute” in indictment mere surplusage
  • “The Fourth Amendment’s proscription against unreasonable searches and seizures governs all seizures of the person, including seizures that involve only a brief detention short of traditional arrest.” (punctuation omitted)
  • the words “with intent to distribute” in an indictment for trafficking in cocaine deemed surplusage and State held not required to prove the defendant had an intent to distribute the cocaine

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: McMurray, Deen, Sognier

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