Court Opinion

ID: 9848490
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 04:20:56.761895+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:18:20.609817
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PHIPPS, Judge,
dissenting.
Although I agree with much of what is said in the majority opinion, I disagree with the majority’s ultimate conclusion that a warrantless search in this case was reasonable.
I agree with the majority that conditioning grant of bail on a waiver of Fourth Amendment rights is not unreasonable where, as here, the person admitted to bail has been charged with unlawful possession of controlled substances. I also agree that a search conducted pursuant to a waiver of Fourth Amendment rights in a bail order should be governed by the same requirements as those applicable to a search conducted pursuant to a Fourth Amendment waiver in a probationary sentence. And I agree that a search conducted pursuant to a condition of probation must be triggered by some conduct reasonably suggestive of criminal activity.
In this case, however, the police conducted a warrantless search based on nothing more than a tip from an informant of unknown reliability. Such a tip does not create a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity unless the police are provided with details that they corroborate by observation.10 Here, the police failed to corroborate the tip. To find the search reasonable under these circumstances opens the door to the type of arbitrary and harassing searches we purport to condemn.
I therefore respectfully dissent.
I am authorized to state that Judge Barnes joins in this dissent.

 See Fox v. State, 272 Ga. 163, 166 (2) (527 SE2d 847) (2000).