STATE v. PERERA

No. 81-1498.

412 So.2d 867 (1982)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Barnabe I. PERERA, Alegandro Barreiro, Jose B. Rojas, Juan Borrego, Luis A. Garcia, Arthuro P. Guarez, Luis R. Ortiz, Nilo A. Hernandez, Miguel Peralta, Armando Quiroz, Jose O. Villanueva, Hipolito L. Visona, Armando A. Gonzalez, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied April 16, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Michael A. Palecki and James S. Purdy, Asst. Attys. Gen., Tampa, for appellant.

Raymond E. LaPorte, and William B. Plowman, Tampa, for appellees.


GRIMES, Judge.

The state seeks reversal of an order granting appellees' motion to suppress physical evidence. The question which the case presents is whether the stop of three vehicles allegedly involved in a marijuana smuggling operation and the arrests which resulted from that stop were legal.

The state filed an information which charged all appellees with trafficking in cannabis in excess of ten thousand pounds and possession of cannabis in excess of one...

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