State v. Barnett

BOGGS, Judge.

The State appeals from the trial court’s grant of the motion to suppress filed by defendants Jack Barnett, Jamie B. Chaves, and C. Lauriston McLeod. Because the trial court correctly concluded that the “no-knock” provision in the search warrant was unsupported by particular facts and circumstances justifying the need for its use and that no exigent circumstances were shown, we affirm.

On August 19, 2010, a narcotics agent for the Fayette County sheriffs office obtained a “no-knock” warrant to search a house in Fayetteville, Georgia. In the affidavit in support of the warrant, he…