STATE v. VOLK

Nos. 72-158 to 72-161.

291 So.2d 643 (1974)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. William David VOLK et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

March 6, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank Schaub, State's Atty., Richard W. Seymour, Asst. State's Atty., and Stanley W. Moore, Intern with State Attorney's Office, Bradenton, and Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for appellant.

Alan R. Williams, St. Petersburg, for William David Volk.

James A. Gardner, Public Defender, and W. Daniel Kearney, Asst. Public Defender, Bradenton, for Jan Michael Humphries, Bobby Lee Daniels and Reginald Whitehead.


MANN, Chief Judge.

We have upheld inventory searches in cases in which an automobile has been necessarily impounded after abandonment1 or where its sole occupant is, because of intoxication, unfit to drive.2 What the trial judge has found in this case is that there was no necessity for impounding the vehicle and that the police did so in this case contrary to the usual procedure followed in traffic cases. On...

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