District Court of Appeal of Florida

An order suppressing evidence in a prosecution against defendant for trafficking in cocaine on the basis that defendant involuntarily abandoned the evidence during the course of an illegal stop is reversed where defendant was not stopped or seized at the time he abandoned the cocaine at issue.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/24/2006
• Published 03/24/2006

Judges

• CANADY, Judge.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Helene S. Parnes, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Elizabeth A. Beardsley of Escobar, Ramirez & Associates P.A., Tampa, for Appellee.