WATTS v. STATE

No. 84-1263.

468 So.2d 256 (1985)

Robert Lee WATTS, Jr., Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

February 22, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Joel E. Grigsby, Asst. Public Defender, Bartow, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and James H. Dysart, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.


LEHAN, Judge.

We reverse defendant's convictions for possession of cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia. We conclude that the trial court erred in denying defendant's motion to suppress and that the search and arrest of defendant grew out of an improper stop.

The arrest of defendant and seizure of the cocaine and drug paraphernalia resulted from a stop of defendant by an officer approximately thirty minutes after a report of a robbery which occurred...

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