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State v. Lyons

Citations

  • 307 S.E.2d 285
  • 167 Ga. App. 747
  • 1983 Ga. App. LEXIS 3348

How courts have described this case

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  • officers’ approach to the back door of a home, after receiving no response at the front door, was permissible in part because it was “[b]ased upon their belief that the residence was occupied
  • proper for officer investigating animal complaint to go to back door, from which he saw marijuana plants, because he was “unable to elicit a response at the front door of a residence reasonably believed to be occupied”

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Judges: Carley, Been, Banke

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