STATE v. SKOFSTAD

No. 85-2380.

498 So.2d 582 (1986)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Michael Joseph SKOFSTAD, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

December 3, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Eddie J. Bell, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellant.

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


STONE, Judge.

This is an appeal by the state from orders granting a motion to dismiss pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.190(c)(4) and granting a motion to suppress.

The arresting officer, an undercover narcotics detective, was conducting surveillance in the parking lot of a lounge where there had been quite a lot of drug activity. At approximately 2:30 a.m. the appellee was observed standing just inside an open door on the driver's side of an...

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