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GA: Consent to search the person does not include the anal cavity

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Consent to search the person does not include the anal cavity. The officer had reasonable suspicion to believe defendant had drugs on his person, but he did not find any. State v. Crumpton, 2010 Ga. App. LEXIS 192 (March 3, 2010). A search warrant for safes bought at Home Depot with a forged check was valid because the safes were described in the attached affidavit. Also, because the interest in the safes was possessory and not a privacy interest, the exclusionary rule would not be applied. State v. Powell, 2010 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 22 (March 3, 2010).* Defendant was in a high crime area having just left a nightclub, and the security guard told the officer to “watch him,” making the officer believe that something happened inside the club...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on March 05, 2010 (boomark / email).