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STATE v. CHAMPION

No. 79-112.

383 So.2d 984 (1980)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. James Stewart CHAMPION, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

May 28, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Kenneth G. Spillias, and Ondina Felipe, Asst. Attys. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellant.

William B. Seidel, Fort Lauderdale, and Thomas G. Murray, Miami, for appellee.

BERANEK, Judge.

This is an appeal by the State from an order granting defendant's motion to suppress. The evidence was obtained in a pat-down search of the defendant when he was approached by police officers in an airport. The initial approach was pursuant to the so-called Markonni drug profile described in United States v. Elmore, 595 F.2d 1036 (5th Cir.1979). We reverse.

The search occurred in the Fort Lauderdale...

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