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Sims v. State

Citations

  • 722 S.E.2d 145
  • 313 Ga. App. 544
  • 2012 Fulton County D. Rep. 161
  • 2012 Ga. App. LEXIS 19

How courts have described this case

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

  • During a traffic stop, “[t]he officer was... authorized to ask [the defendant] to step outside his car; ‘ordering [the defendant] from the car was an extension of the constitutionally valid detention resulting from the traffic stop.’ ”
  • During a traffic stop, “[t]he officer was . . . authorized to ask [the defendant] to step outside his car; ‘ordering [the defendant] from the car was an extension of the constitutionally valid detention resulting from the traffic stop.’”
  • denial of motion to suppress affirmed where defendant first gave consent to search as he was signing completed citation and gave consent again shortly thereafter
  • denial of motion to suppress affirmed where defendant first gave consent to search as he was signing completed citation and gave consent again shortly thereafter

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Judges: Phipps, Andrews, McFadden

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