District Court of Appeal of Florida

An order granting defendant's motion to suppress cocaine, cannabis, and drug paraphernalia, which police seized from his locked car using keys they obtained from him when they arrested him for gambling, is reversed where the "automobile exception" permitted the warrantless search of the vehicle once officers saw a razor blade and white powdery residue inside.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/20/2006
• Published 10/20/2006

Judges

• ALTENBERND, 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:
  
• James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Cynthia J. Dodge, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellee.