State v. Britton

316 Ga. 283

FINAL COPY S23A0102. THE STATE v. BRITTON. MCMILLIAN, Justice. Manvel Britton was charged with murder and other offenses in connection with the fatal shooting of Eddy Leonardo.1 The State appeals the trial court’s grant of Britton’s motion to suppress evidence from his cell phone records obtained pursuant to a search warrant (the “Warrant”) during the police investigation into that death.2 The trial court found that the affidavit for the Warrant (the “Affidavit”) contained a material misrepresentation which tainted the entire document, and, with that misrepresentation excluded, the…