GA: Search incident of def’s backpack six days after arrest was void

Defense counsel at trial provided ineffective assistance when he failed to seek suppression of evidence recovered from defendant’s backpacks, that were searched six days after defendant’s arrest. The search incident to arrest exception was not applicable to the search that did not occur close in time or proximity to defendant’s arrest. Kennebrew v. State, 2016 Ga. LEXIS 693 (Oct. 31, 2016).

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