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Ward v. State

Citations

  • 627 S.E.2d 862
  • 277 Ga. App. 790
  • 2006 Fulton County D. Rep. 686
  • 2006 Ga. App. LEXIS 199

How courts have described this case

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  • meaningless inconsistencies in answers to police questions do not give rise to articulable suspicion
  • motion to suppress evidence seized during investigatory stop should have been granted where officer lacked reasonable, articulable suspicion for stop
  • although suspect consented to pat-down for officer’s safety and further consented to a search of her pocket, during which contraband was discovered, the officer was not authorized to detain the suspect in a second-tier detention and the search was not justified

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Judges: Ruffin, Johnson, Barnes

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