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State v. Causey

Citations

  • 540 S.E.2d 696
  • 246 Ga. App. 829
  • 2000 Fulton County D. Rep. 4392
  • 2000 Ga. App. LEXIS 1294

How courts have described this case

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  • noting that officers’ “first-hand experience” with similar offenses informs reasonable conclusions that criminal activity is taking place
  • noting that officers’ “first-hand experience” with similar offenses informs reasonable conclusions that criminal activity is taking place
  • stop of defendant’s moving vehicle was a second-tier, not a first-tier, encounter where officer held out his hand and “yelled” for defendant to stop
  • “seizure” within the meaning of Fourth Amendment occurs when, in view of all circumstances surrounding incident, a reasonable person believes he is not free to leave

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Blackburn, Eldridge, Barnes

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