District Court of Appeal of Florida

An order suppressing drugs dropped by the appellee upon being approached by officers is reversed where the officers' conduct did not constitute a stop without probable cause or reasonable suspicion, but rather a consensual encounter, and the appellee dropped the drugs prior to the stop.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/04/2006
• Published 10/04/2006

Judges

• WARNER, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Sue-Ellen Kenny, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and John M. Conway, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellee.