Court Opinion

ID: 9617931
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 05:03:54.973422+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:04:20.783525
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Gregory, Justice,
concurring specially.
I concur in Divisions 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6. I concur in the judgment only with regard to Division 2. A pen register as used here records electronic impulses, not sounds. It is not such a “device” as is defined in OCGA § 1-11-60 because such devices must overhear, record, intercept or transmit sounds. My views are more completely set out in a concurring opinion in Evans v. State, 252 Ga. 312, 322 (314 SE2d 421) (1984).
I am authorized to state that Chief Justice Marshall joins this special concurrence.