Legal Opinion
Ransom v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided July 30, 1999No. A99A1817PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Eldridge, Judge.
Rico Ransom appeals from a DeKalb Superior Court’s order denying his motion to suppress evidence obtained pursuant to an allegedly illegal detention and resulting chase arising from the following set of facts adduced at the motion hearing:
DeKalb County Police Officer B. Davis testified that he was patrolling in a marked police car by Cedar Park in Scottsdale, DeKalb County, at approximately 11:30 a.m. The area, and the park in particular, is a target for police patrols because it is a high drug crime area. Officer Davis “has made a lot of arrests out of that area for drug…
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