[Download] "Ridley v. State" by Court of Appeals of Georgia * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Ridley v. State
- Author : Court of Appeals of Georgia
- Release Date : January 18, 1985
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 49 KB
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The defendant appeals his conviction of possession of marijuana and diazepam, challenging the denial of his motion to suppress the physical evidence. It is contended that defendant was illegally arrested so that the subsequent warrantless search of his home violated his rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments. On January 1, 1984, officer Kessler of the DeKalb Police Department received a domestic call concerning a man beating a woman, ""the man... possibly armed with a nine millimeter handgun...."" On the way to the scene, Kessler spoke with a friend of the woman who stated he saw the defendant Ridley with a nine millimeter gun. When Kessler and his sergeant pulled up to the house, there was a white female with blood on her face standing in the driveway ""screaming and hollering."" The defendant, shirtless, was in the driveway screaming at the woman, but when he saw the police he ran inside the house. While the police sergeant went to the front door of the house, defendant exited the back door. Kessler, apprehensive of a weapon, made defendant lie down on the ground and frisked him but found no gun.