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State v. Peterson

Citations

  • 543 S.E.2d 692
  • 273 Ga. 657
  • 2001 Fulton County D. Rep. 798
  • 2001 Ga. LEXIS 192

How courts have described this case

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  • additional officers joining colleague's legal intrusion based upon exigent circumstances \must confine their intrusion to the scope of the original invasion\ (citations and punctuation omitted)
  • additional officers joining colleague’s legal intrusion based upon exigent circumstances “must confine their intrusion to the scope of the original invasion” (citations and punctuation omitted)
  • “The plain view doctrine . .. permits the warrantless seizure of evidence visible to a police officer who sees it from a vantage point the officer is legally entitled to occupy.”
  • where the court noted that an officer’s entry in the house for the purpose of seeing that the children who had been left without responsible adult supervision were cared for properly was not a violation of the residents’ Fourth Amendment rights

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Judges: Benham, Fletcher, Sears, Carley

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