STATE v. ROSS

No. 84-2590.

471 So.2d 196 (1985)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Robert ROSS, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

June 19, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Robert S. Jaegers, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Tatjana Ostapoff, Asst. Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


HERSEY, Judge.

We affirm the trial court's order suppressing evidence seized under a search warrant. Because of a word processing error the warrant failed to contain a description of the specific property for which the search was authorized. Such facial invalidity precludes resort by the state to the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule enunciated in United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. ___, 104 S.Ct. 3405, 82 L.Ed.2d 677 (1984). Indeed, the court in that...

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