STATE v. PALMER

No. 84-1124.

450 So.2d 931 (1984)

STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Stephen R. PALMER, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

June 18, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Diane Leeds, Asst. Atty. Gen., for petitioner.

Hitchcock & Cunningham and Bo Hitchcock, Fort Lauderdale, for respondent.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., HUBBART, J., and SHARP, WINIFRED J., Associate Judge.


SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

The respondent Palmer pled nolo contendere to a charge of drug trafficking, reserving the right to appeal from his conviction on the ground that his motion to suppress had been erroneously denied. The trial court admitted him to bond pending appeal, holding that Sec. 903.133, Fla. Stat. (1983),1 which precludes such relief in a trafficking case, was unconstitutional as applied to Palmer, on the ground that he was...

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