GOMEZ v. STATE

No. 86-2812.

517 So.2d 110 (1987)

Octavio GOMEZ, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

December 29, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sharpstein & Sharpstein and Janice Burton Sharpstein and Richard Sharpstein, Coconut Grove, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Richard L. Polin, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and BASKIN and JORGENSON, JJ.


SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

At the conclusion of processing Gomez after a concededly valid routine traffic stop for lane straddling and suspected DUI, Officer Ramero, of Cuban extraction, noted that the defendant's Spanish accent differed from his own. As a result, he asked Gomez where he was from. Gomez said he was from Colombia but that his papers, which were improperly not on his person, were at home. This led, in immediate sequence, to a trip to the police station...

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