State of Florida, Appellant, v. Shawn Donsha Sipp, Appellee. (2025)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Sixth District.

State of Florida, Appellant, v. Shawn Donsha Sipp, Appellee.

Case No. 6D2024-0831

Decided: September 05, 2025

James Uthmeier, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Kristen L. Davenport and Rebecca Rock McGuigan, Assistant Attorneys General, Daytona Beach, for Appellant. Blair Allen, Public Defender, and David L. Redfearn, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellee.

AFFIRMED. See Rhode Island v. Innis, 446 U.S. 291, 301 (1980) (explaining “the term ‘interrogation’ under Miranda refers not only to express questioning, but also to any words or actions on the part of the police (other than those normally attendant to arrest and custody)”); Senser v. State, 243 So. 3d 1003, 1009 (Fla. 4th DCA 2018) (“[W]hen an officer's questions or actions extend beyond requests for basic biographical information and could reasonably be viewed as designed to secure potential incriminating evidence, the questions or actions constitute an interrogation.”).

PER CURIAM.

NARDELLA, SMITH and BROWNLEE, JJ., concur.

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