STATE v. GOVEA

No. 87-619.

514 So.2d 80 (1987)

The STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Edilberto Agusto GOVEA, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

October 27, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Ralph Barreira, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellant.

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and N. Joseph Durant, Jr., Asst. Public Defender, for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and BARKDULL and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

Notwithstanding the trial court's strongly expressed misgivings about the correctness of decisional law which permits police officers, without any articulable suspicion that a person has committed or is about to commit a crime, to engage such person in conversation and request such person's consent to a search, this is the law by which both this court and the trial court are bound. Art. I, § 12, Fla. Const.; Florida v. Rodriguez,

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