District Court of Appeal of Florida

Denial of defendant's motion to suppress evidence in a prosecution for carrying a concealed firearm, which arose after a gun fell from his waistband when police stopped a vehicle he was driving and ordered both him and the passenger from the car, is reversed where police lacked the reasonable suspicion required to support the stop.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/14/2007
• Published 02/14/2007

Judges

• STEVENSON, C.J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Franklin Prince, West Palm Beach, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Thomas A. Palmer, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.