Publication Date: 2002-04-05
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Carley, George H.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Mears, Multi-County Public Defender, Richard T. Taylor Taylor & Viers PC, and Thomas H. Dunn Georgia Resource Ctr., Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Ralph M. Walke, District Attorney, Peter F. Larson, Louie C. Fraser, Assistant District Attorneys, Dublin, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Allison B. Vrolijk, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S01P1789
A hospital employee's spontaneous utterance to police that defendant's emergency room toxicology screen was positive for marijuana supported issuance of a search warrant to obtain defendant's blood s