{"id":33581,"date":"2018-06-26T19:58:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T00:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=33581"},"modified":"2018-06-26T20:32:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T01:32:40","slug":"ga-sw-obviates-need-to-follow-the-hearing-provisions-of-the-georgia-animal-protection-act-has-provision-for-impoundment-and-return-of-animals-seized-under-the-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=33581","title":{"rendered":"GA: SW obviates need to follow the hearing provisions of the Georgia Animal Protection Act which has provision for impoundment and return of animals seized under the Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Georgia Animal Protection Act has provision for impoundment and return of animals seized by the state. When a search warrant is used, as here, that provision doesn\u2019t apply. <a href=\"https:\/\/efast.gaappeals.us\/download?filingId=f2f13352-51f9-4335-b573-abebea6c0327\">Bramblett v. Habersham County<\/a>, 2018 Ga. App. LEXIS 399 (June 21, 2018).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough there was testimony that the tag light may have started working at some point during the stop (possibly after the deputy slammed the trunk shut during the search), such evidence does not demand a finding that there was no legal basis for the stop. Instead, it was for the judge to decide, based on the testimony presented and the dashcam video-recording, whether the stop was  authorized due to the deputy&#8217;s observation of a traffic violation, i.e., a nonfunctioning tag light.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/efast.gaappeals.us\/download?filingId=4abcd250-801d-4fba-9a2e-985ce8754eac\">Partlow v. State<\/a>, 2018 Ga. App. LEXIS 410 (June 21, 2018).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Georgia Animal Protection Act has provision for impoundment and return of animals seized by the state. When a search warrant is used, as here, that provision doesn\u2019t apply. Bramblett v. Habersham County, 2018 Ga. App. LEXIS 399 (June 21, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=33581\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative-search","category-standards-of-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33593,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33581\/revisions\/33593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}