District Court of Appeal of Florida

An order suppressing cocaine which the defendant dropped while running from the police is reversed where an illegal stop of defendant did not occur until the police caught up with defendant and after he dropped the cocaine, rendering the seizure lawful.

Appellate Information

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

Judges

• KLEIN, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Melanie Dale Surber, West Palm Beach, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Phillip Menditto of Fred Haddad, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.