Poole v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming a police officer’s conviction for violating his oath of office based upon evidence that he had pawned a weapon he had confiscated during a traffic stop and used the money to pay personal expenses
• policeman’s conduct in pawning confiscated handgun to get money to pay personal water bill was “far outside the realm of acceptable police behavior”
• policeman's conduct in pawning confiscated handgun to get money to pay personal water bill was \far outside the realm of acceptable police behavior\
• police officer pawned a firearm seized during an automobile stop to pay his personal water bill
• “The due process clauses of our state and federal constitutions require that an individual be informed as to what actions a governmental authority prohibits with such clarity that he is not forced to speculate at the meaning of the law.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• “The due process clauses of our state and federal constitutions require that an individual be informed as to what actions a governmental authority prohibits with such clarity that he is not forced to speculate at the meaning of the law.” (citation and punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Dorsey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-06-30· cited 38×
• Brandeburg v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-06-25· cited 9×
• Chamblee Visuals, LLC v. City of Chamblee
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-09-14· cited 9×
• Jowers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-03-31· cited 8×
• POWELL v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-04-30· cited 7×
• State v. Tullis
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-05-16· cited 5×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-19· cited 5×
• WILLIAMS, CONGRESSWOMAN v. POWELL
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-31· cited 2×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Kolender v. Lawson
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-02· cited 3,306×
• Parker v. Levy
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-19· cited 1,846×
• Sustakovitch v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-04-06· cited 20×
• State v. Burrell
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-01-10· cited 6×
• Armstrong v. Mayor &C. of Savannah
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-10-27· cited 4×
• Ritter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-10-05· cited 4×