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State v. Harris

Citations

  • 581 S.E.2d 736
  • 261 Ga. App. 119
  • 2003 Fulton County D. Rep. 1541
  • 2003 Ga. App. LEXIS 561

How courts have described this case

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  • State’s contention that citizen was free to leave motel room where police-citizen encounter occurred undermined by police officer’s taking of citizen’s identification and leaving room
  • “[n]ervousness in police presence, standing alone, provides no articulable suspicion” of criminal activity and cannot serve as the basis for prolonging a traffic stop
  • officer who saw defendant walk into hotel room and then back out into breezeway lacked reasonable suspicion required for investigatory detention
  • “[A] second-tier stop is subject to strict boundaries regarding duration, intent, and scope. Such investigative stop should be brief, limited in time to that minimally necessary to investigate the allegation invoking suspicion.”

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Judges: Miller, Ruffin, Smith

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