District Court of Appeal of Florida

Denial of defendant's motion to suppress, preserved for appeal when pleading guilty to possession of cocaine and marijuana and to disorderly conduct, is reversed where the contraband at issue was seized in a search incident to an unlawful arrest when an officer conducted a warrantless arrest of defendant for disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor, but the officer did not observe conduct constituting the crime of disorderly conduct.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/28/2006
• Published 07/28/2006

Judges

• NORTHCUTT, Judge.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Richard J. Sanders, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and William I. Munsey, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.