STATE v. TYSON

Nos. S00G0606, S00A2019.

544 S.E.2d 444 (2001)

273 Ga. 690

The STATE v. TYSON. Tyson v. The State.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied April 12, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick H. Head, Dist. Atty., Dana J. Norman, John Richter, Debra H. Bernes, Maria B. Golick, Cindy Yeager, Asst. Dist. Attys., for appellant (case no. S00G0606).

Browning Tanksley & Casurella, George T. Smith, Marietta, for appellee (case no. S00G0606).

Browning, Tanksley & Casurella, George T. Smith, Marietta, for appellant (case no. S00A2019).

Patrick H. Head, Dist. Atty., Dana J. Norman, John Richter, Debra H. Bernes, Maria B. Golick, Cindy Yeager, Asst. Dist. Attys., for appellee (case no. S00A2019).


FLETCHER, Presiding Justice.

A jury convicted Samuel Seymore Tyson of child molestation, but the Court of Appeals of Georgia reversed on the grounds that the trial court should have granted Tyson's motion to suppress evidence.1 We granted the writ of certiorari to consider whether the court of appeals correctly concluded that Tyson's warrantless arrest was illegal and therefore the evidence seized incident to his arrest should have been...

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