Supreme Court of Georgia

State v. Wilson

February 21, 2023315 Ga. 613

Summary

The Supreme Court of Georgia affirmed the suppression of evidence obtained from Wilson's cell phones. It held that a warrant authorizing a forensic search for “any and all stored electronic information,” without meaningful limits tied to the crimes under investigation, violated the Fourth Amendment's particularity requirement and authorized a general search. The court declined to decide probable cause because the warrant was invalid for lack of particularity, and the good-faith exception did not apply.