VETTER v. STATE

No. 80-500.

395 So.2d 1199 (1981)

Paul Turner VETTER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied April 14, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Weiner, Robbins, Tunkey & Ross and Ronald A. Dion and Jeffrey S. Weiner, Miami, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Calvin L. Fox, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before HENDRY, NESBITT and FERGUSON, JJ.


HENDRY, Judge.

Appellant Vetter was arrested at Miami International Airport when the narcotics dog Ringo indicated, by positive alert, the presence of a controlled substance within appellant's briefcase. A warrant for search of the brief case was issued upon probable cause based on the dog's alert, and cocaine was discovered.

Both sides submitted to the court written (and widely divergent) versions of events leading up to the dog sniff, which bear upon the...

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