IN RE FORFEITURE OF $6,003.00 IN U.S. CURR.

No. 86-660.

505 So.2d 668 (1987)

In re the FORFEITURE OF $6,003.00 IN U.S. CURRENCY. DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAY SAFETY AND MOTOR VEHICLES, Appellant, v. Oswald COLEMAN and Jessie Williams, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

April 16, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Enoch J. Whitney, Gen. Counsel, Dept. of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, and R.W. Evans, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Tallahasee, for appellant.

Paul J. Dubbeld of Judge & Warren, P.A., Daytona Beach, for appellees.


DAUKSCH, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment ordering the Department of Highway Safety to return to the appellees, Coleman and Williams, money seized by a highway patrol trooper.

The patrolman observed Coleman driving a car on the interstate highway and because he and Williams fit that patrolman's drug courier profile a stop was made. The patrolman testified that although Coleman had not broken any law he stopped him because in his experience persons...

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