A Spalding County attorney has succeeded at getting evidence obtained against her client suppressed, after the Georgia Court of Appeals determined deputies utilized an invalid search warrant containing an improper no-knock provision.

In reversing the suppression motion denied by the Spalding County Superior Court, the intermediate appellate court ruled an occupant’s discovery of officers’ presence outside a property intended to be “searched for drugs” doesn’t excuse law enforcement from a notice requirement when executing a search warrant.

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