Legal Opinion

Nunnally v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided June 20, 2011No. A11A0729PublishedCited by 16 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Phipps, Presiding Judge.

Challenging his judgment of conviction, Ralph Nunnally contends that the evidence was insufficient to support the verdicts upon charges of: (i) turn signal violation, 1 and (ii) possession of less than one ounce of marijuana. 2 He also maintains that the drug evidence should have been suppressed as fruit of an illegal seizure. For reasons that follow, we affirm the conviction for the traffic offense and reverse the conviction for the drug offense.

The state’s witnesses testified to the following. On the afternoon of October 3, 2008, a patrol officer saw Nunnally twice…

2Cases cited21 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  3. Whren v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1996
  4. United States v. SharpeSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  5. Illinois v. CaballesSupreme Court of the United States · 2005

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3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Betancourt v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2013
  2. Heard v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2013
  3. State v. PriceCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2013
  4. The STATE v. ALLEN Et Al.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 2014
  5. Bobby Dail Rush v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2023

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