KIRK v. STATE

No. 85-1702.

493 So.2d 59 (1986)

Jonathan Nate KIRK, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

August 22, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender and John T. Kilcrease, Jr., Asst. Public Defender, Bartow, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee and Michael J. Kotler, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether the police had a sufficiently well-founded suspicion to stop the defendant for questioning.

The defendant was stopped by the police as he rode his bicycle through a residential neighborhood shortly after midnight. The defendant passed by a police cruiser but, according to testimony of the officers, did not speed up or change direction at the sight of the cruiser. There were no recent reports of crimes...

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