STATE v. PHOENIX

Nos. 80-195, 80-385 and 80-386.

428 So.2d 262 (1982)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Michael Harrison PHOENIX and Steven Michael Trusz, Appellees. STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Morton Neal HALL, Jr., Appellee. STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Richard HALE, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied March 30, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Mark Horn, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Max P. Engel of Law Offices of Max P. Engel, Miami, for appellees.


HURLEY, Judge.

The State appeals from orders suppressing the use of certain evidence against the defendants in several criminal cases. The determinative question on appeal is whether police officers who conducted a covert surveillance outside their jurisdiction could make valid "citizen's arrests" even though they used a marked police car and asserted their official position in stopping the arrestees. We answer in the affirmative so long as the probable cause justifying...

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