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Pitts v. State

Citations

  • 471 S.E.2d 270
  • 221 Ga. App. 309
  • 96 Fulton County D. Rep. 2039
  • 1996 Ga. App. LEXIS 478

How courts have described this case

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

  • “The deputy merely asked these suspects about their travel- itinerary in a manner which was not extensive or prolonged, and was not unconstitutionally intrusive.... ”
  • defendant’s anxious behavior combined with conflicting statements given by defendants regarding their itinerary justified detaining defendants for free-air search by drug dog
  • further investigation justified by driver’s nervousness and driver and passenger gave conflicting accounts of travel itinerary
  • combination of unusual anxiousness and conflicting accounts of travel itinerary sufficed

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Judges: McMurray, Johnson, Ruffin

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