State v. Ponce

HUNSTEIN, Presiding Justice.

We granted the State’s petition for writ of certiorari to consider whether the Court of Appeals correctly found that Georgia’s statutory or regulatory scheme concerning the safety inspection of commercial vehicles failed to provide a constitutionally adequate substitute for a warrant. Ponce v. State, 271 Ga. App. 408 (2) (609 SE2d 736) (2005). Although the Court of Appeals analyzed Georgia’s statutory scheme, we need not reach that ruling because we find that the court improperly failed to consider Georgia’s regulatory scheme. The Court of Appeals declined to…