BASCOY v. STATE

Nos. 81-2661, 81-2663.

424 So.2d 80 (1982)

Manuel BASCOY and Angel Sotolongo, Appellants, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied January 21, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pollack, Komorowski & Headley and John Lipinski, Miami, for appellants.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Charles A. Stampelos and William Thomas, Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellee.

Before HUBBART, C.J., and BASKIN and FERGUSON, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

Where the defendants were stopped by an officer for minor traffic infractions of such a nature that any citizen committing them could have routinely been stopped, that the officer "possibly" would not have stopped defendants but for further suspicion that they were also engaged in criminal activity did not render it an unlawful "pretext" stop. See State v. Holmes, 256 So.2d 32 (Fla. 2d DCA 1972), writ discharged...

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