STATE v. GARCIA

No. 2D12-3359.

126 So.3d 419 (2013)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Roy A. GARCIA, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

November 8, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Elba Caridad Martin-Schomaker , Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellant.

Daniel P. Fischetti of Weed and Associates, P.A., Tampa, for Appellee.


SILBERMAN, Judge.

The State seeks review of the order dismissing an affidavit of violation of probation which was entered after the trial court granted Roy A. Garcia's motion to suppress. The State argues that the court erred in granting the motion to suppress because Garcia's act of engaging in headlong flight in a high-crime area gave the police a valid basis for stopping him. We agree and reverse.

The evidence established that the police went to an address...

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