Legal Opinion
State v. Canidate
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided February 20, 1996No. A95A2358PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Andrews, Judge.
The State appeals the trial court’s granting of Driscoll Eldon Canidate’s motion to suppress. The sole issue to be decided on appeal is whether the police officer had a reasonable suspicion of criminal conduct so as to justify the investigatory stop.
The evidence at the hearing showed that, on January 26, 1995, Officer Callihan was responding to a report of a stalled car when he noticed a brown Nissan Maxima in the driveway of a house which he knew had previously been raided. Callihan drove past and continued to respond to the call on the stalled car. When he arrived at the…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- United States v. CortezSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
- Tarwid v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1987
- Brown v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1988
- State v. JonesCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1994
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Burgeson v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1996
- State v. ArmstrongCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1996
- Beasley v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2002
- Morris v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1999
- Morris v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1999