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Search & Seizure - Game Warden - Suppression Order - Firearm Charge (access required)

By Deborah Elkins
Published: June 30, 2008

The Court of Appeals upholds a trial court order suppressing a firearm discovered on defendant by a game warden who was conducting a decoy deer operation in Giles County. The commonwealth is barred on appeal from arguing that the game warden affected a custodial arrest of defendant. The commonwealth’s argument that the search fell under the ...
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