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State v. Foster

Citations

  • 566 S.E.2d 418
  • 255 Ga. App. 704
  • 2002 Fulton County D. Rep. 1779
  • 2002 Ga. App. LEXIS 739

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  • reversing grant of suppression motion where officer told defendant that if he drove a car from the bar, he would be arrested, but, after defendant drove, officer did not actually arrest him until after he performed field sobriety tests
  • reversing grant of suppression motion where officer told defendant that if he drove a car from the bar, he would be arrested, but, after defendant drove, officer did not actually arrest him until after he performed field sobriety tests
  • “[T]he proper inquiry [is] whether [the defendant] had been restrained to the degree associated with a formal arrest, not whether the police had probable cause to arrest.”

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Judges: Blackburn, Johnson, Miller

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