SUMLIN v. STATE

No. 83-102.

433 So.2d 1303 (1983)

Willie R. SUMLIN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

July 1, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Katherine V. Blanco, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.


SCHEB, Judge.

Defendant Willie Sumlin appeals the trial court's denial of his motion to suppress evidence seized and statements that he made after a police officer stopped the vehicle in which he was an occupant. We agree with his contention that the stop was improper because it was not based on a founded suspicion.

Officer Benjamin C. Hulthusen of the St. Petersburg Police Department was the only witness to testify at the hearing on Sumlin's motion to suppress...

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