Supreme Court of Florida

Police have probable cause to search a vehicle's passenger compartment and trunk where the totality of circumstances reveal a strong odor of illegal narcotics coming from the vehicle, the suspect is extremely nervous and jittery during pre-search interaction with law enforcement, and drugs are found on the suspect when frisked.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/04/2002
• Published 04/04/2002

Judges

• LEWIS, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Robert J. Krauss, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Richard M. Fishkin, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, FL, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Robert D. Rosen, Assistant Public Defender, Tenth Judicial Circuit, Bartow, FL, for Respondent.