SIMS v. STATE

No. 79-2561.

425 So.2d 563 (1982)

Richard SIMS, Terrence Heiden, James Born, Ronald Butler, Jerry Jones, Christina Richmond and Richard Schearer, Appellants/Cross-Appellees, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee/Cross-Appellant.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearings Denied February 9, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis M. Jepeway, Jr., of Jepeway & Jepeway, P.A., Miami, for appellants/cross-appellees, Sims, Heiden and Born.

Michael Bryant of Birr, Bryant & Saier, P.A., Fort Lauderdale and Gainesville, and Jack M. Ross, Gainesville, for appellant/cross-appellee, Butler.

John D. O'Donnell of Panza & O'Donnell, Fort Lauderdale, for appellants/cross-appellees, Jones, Richmond and Schearer.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, Laura R. Morrison and Sharon Lee Stedman, Asst. Attys. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee/cross-appellant.


HERSEY, Judge.

This appeal results from pleas of nolo contendere with the right reserved by each of the seven defendants to appeal the partial denial of their motions to suppress. The state cross-appeals from a determination that all of the defendants had standing to challenge all searches and seizures in issue.

The various arrests, searches and seizures were occasioned by an episode which occurred in 1978. Agent Chuck Dodge of the Drug Enforcement Administration...

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