Supreme Court of Florida

Suppression of evidence in a prosecution for manufacturing cannabis and possessing drug paraphernalia is reversed where deputies acted reasonably and consistent with the Fourth Amendment in entering defendant's apartment without a warrant after finding a child wandering alone around defendant's apartment complex.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/15/2005
• Published 12/15/2005

Judges

• CANTERO, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, Bruce P. Taylor, Assistant Public Defender, Tenth Judicial Circuit, Bartow, FL, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, Robert J. Krauss, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Bureau Chief, Tampa Criminal Appeals, Marilyn Muir Beccue and Richard M. Fishkin, Assistant Attorney Generals, Tampa, FL, for Respondent.