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Georgia Supreme Court: Warrantless Search of Vehicle’s Airbag Control Module is Unconstitutional
Loaded on Dec. 18, 2019
by Douglas Ankney
published in Criminal Legal News
January, 2020, page 34
Filed under:
Misconduct/Corruption,
Police Misconduct,
Searches,
Police Searches.
Location:
Georgia.
by Douglas Ankney
The Supreme Court of Georgia held that a warrantless search of a vehicle’s airbag control module (“ACM”) is unconstitutional.
In December 2015, Victor Mobley was driving his 2014 Dodge Charger when he collided with a 1999 Corvette. Mobley survived the crash, but the two people in the ...
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