Legal Opinion
Coley v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided January 23, 1986No. 71215PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Carley, Judge.
Police officers received a call from a woman who reported suspicious persons in her neighborhood. When the police arrived at her home, the woman told them that two men driving a burgundy four-door car had twice tried to get her to open her door to them, stating that they had tickets for a basketball game to deliver to her. Both times, she had refused to open her door and asked the men to leave the tickets in the mailbox. This they refused to do. As the police were leaving the scene, they saw two men in an automobile which fit the description they had been given. The officers…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- New York v. BeltonSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
- Brooks v. THE STATECourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1973
- Tuzman v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1978
- State v. HopkinsCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1982
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3Cited by23 opinions
- Evans v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1987
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- Commonwealth v. MetzSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1992
- Dunbar v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1997
- McConnell v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1988
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