District Court of Appeal of Florida

A conviction for possession of cocaine is reversed pursuant to defendant's claim of erroneous denial of a suppression motion where an officer's interaction with defendant went from a consensual encounter to an investigatory stop without the required reasonable suspicion, and thus the stop was illegal and defendant's consent to search was tainted.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/08/2006
• Published 03/08/2006

Judges

• HAZOURI, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Dea Abramschmitt, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Joseph A. Tringali, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.