Archive for July, 2008


Georgia troopers put to the “smell test” in drug case

Is it possible for a police officer to smell raw marijuana when it's wrapped up and locked in a car trunk? That was the question asked by David West, a Georgia criminal defense lawyer, in a drug case currently pending in Gordon County. Mr. West's client was arrested and charged with drug crimes after law enforcement officers found 10 pounds of marijuana in the trunk of the car he was driving. The police believed they had probable cause to search the car ...

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Gwinnett County man found “not guilty” in dog park murder case

A man charged with murder in Gwinnett County Georgia was acquitted late last week. Charles Martin Coats was found "not guilty" of murder in the stabbing death of William Scott Carr that occurred on January 3, 2007. The Atlanta Journal Constitution has the story. Coats admitted that he stabbed the man, but his lawyer argued that it was in self-defense. According to the attorney, Coats and Carr got into an argument over Carr's dogs at Yellow River Park in ...

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