GA 17-5-27 - GA 17-5-27

JUDICIAL DECISIONS "No-knock" provision should not have been included in the warrant, when there was no allegation of increased peril to the officers or of danger that evidence would be destroyed. Adams v. State, 201 Ga. App. 12 , 410 S.E.2d 139 (1991). Trial court's grant of the defendants' motion to suppress evidence obtained from a house was not clearly erroneous because the "no-knock" provision in the search warrant for the house was unsupported by particular facts and circumstances justifying the need for its use and that no exigent circumstances were shown; a single report of the presence of a firearm over five months before the warrant issued, uncorroborated despite continued surveillance and investigation during that time, was stale. State v. Barnett, 314 Ga. App. 17 , 722 S.E.2d 8...