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State v. Browning

Citations

  • 433 S.E.2d 119
  • 209 Ga. App. 197
  • 93 Fulton County D. Rep. 2678
  • 1993 Ga. App. LEXIS 817

How courts have described this case

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

  • “Personal belongings brought by their owner on a visit to a friend’s house retain their constitutional protection until their owner meaningfully abdicates control or responsibility.”
  • defendant did not abandon her purse, even though she left it open in another’s apartment
  • police illegally searched woman’s purse found on apartment floor
  • purse not abandoned where defendant identified it as hers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Smith, Johnson, Blackburn

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