BALDWIN v. STATE

No. 81-2018.

418 So.2d 1219 (1982)

Charles Edward BALDWIN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

September 3, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerry Hill, Public Defender, Bartow, and Allyn Giambalvo, Asst. Public Defender, St. Petersburg, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Frank Lester Adams, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.


CURTIS, CLINTON A., Associate Judge.

This is an appeal from the denial of a motion to suppress evidence. The issue before us is whether the police officer exceeded the permissible scope of a pat-down or frisk incident to an investigatory stop where a wallet was seized from defendant's person. We agree with defendant that seizure of the wallet was illegal and reverse.

Officer Ronald Heck testified that pursuant to investigating a strong-arm robbery, he stopped...

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