STATE v. JURISA

No. 85-260.

475 So.2d 973 (1985)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Miro JURISA, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied October 16, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Carolyn V. McCann, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert I. Kalina, New York, and Michael Milchman of Ostrow, Wolfson & Milchman, Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.


LETTS, Judge.

This appeal is brought by the State to challenge the trial court's suppression of a search without a warrant. The court found that the search was unreasonable due to the totality of the circumstances. We reverse.

Predicated in part on the police officer's testimony that he had seen narcotics wrapped in similar silver duct tape packages on "hundreds of occasions," we believe there was probable cause to search those packages, exposed during a consent...

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