District Court of Appeal of Florida

A conviction and sentence for cocaine possession is reversed where defendant's motion to suppress should have been granted where the state failed to carry its burden of showing that defendant consented to being searched following a valid traffic stop.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/24/2006
• Published 02/24/2006

Judges

• PALMER, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and Brynn Newton, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Lamya A. Henry, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.