State v. Driggers

ANDREWS, Presiding Judge.

The State of Georgia takes this appeal from the trial court’s grant of James Driggers’s motion to suppress statements taken and drugs, paraphernalia, and cash found in a police search of the house to which Driggers had taken his girlfriend by force. The State argues that police had the authority both to enter the house for the purpose of apprehending Driggers and to reenter for the purpose of taking the victim’s written statement, at which time they also discovered a part of the physical evidence at issue. We find that although police had authority to enter the house…