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Shorter v. State

Citations

  • 521 S.E.2d 684
  • 239 Ga. App. 625
  • 99 Fulton County D. Rep. 3209
  • 1999 Ga. App. LEXIS 1087

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  • particularized description of a suspect vehicle may provide the reasonable suspicion sufficient to warrant brief investigative stop
  • “officer was looking for a blue Cadillac with four black men”
  • “Even if a deficiency did result from trial counsel’s failure to file a motion to suppress, [the defendant’s] burden is to make a strong showing that if trial counsel had made a motion to suppress, the damaging evidence would have been suppressed.”

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Judges: Barnes, Blackburn, Ellington

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