District Court of Appeal of Florida
F.J.R. v. State of Florida, 5D05-1625
A judgment and sentence for possession of cocaine and resisting an officer without violence is reversed pursuant to a claim of erroneous denial of a motion to suppress where an officer's detention of defendant, a passenger in a vehicle stopped for a traffic violation, after he walked away from the officer was unjustified.
Appellate Information
- Decided 02/17/2006
- Published 02/17/2006
Judges
- PALMER, J.
Court
- District Court of Appeal of Florida
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and Allison Havens, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.
- For Appellees:
- Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Jeffrey R. Casey, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.