District Court of Appeal of Florida

A conviction and sentence for possession of cocaine and drug paraphernalia is affirmed over a claim of erroneous denial of a motion to suppress where an officer witnessed an assault perpetrated by defendant who was armed with a stick, and thus, there was reasonable suspicion that defendant was armed and the officer's weapons pat-down of appellant was proper.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/12/2006
• Published 04/12/2006

Judges

• WARNER, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Tom Wm. Odom, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.


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