Legal Opinion
State v. Jones
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided August 30, 2004No. A04A1001PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Miller, Judge.
The State appeals from the trial court’s grant of Yewston Jones’s motion to suppress evidence seized in connection with a possession of cocaine residue charge. The trial court suppressed the evidence. We agree and therefore affirm.
The record reveals that on May 29, 2003, a sergeant and an investigator from the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Department were driving through a motel parking lot when the sergeant observed a man in the doorway of room 159 slam the door shut. With the investigator at his side, the sergeant knocked on the door and asked the woman who answered whether…
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- Vansant v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1994
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