STATE v. EDWARDS

No. 88-522.

536 So.2d 288 (1988)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Dewey Patrick EDWARDS and Paul Robert Hernandez, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

December 12, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Helen P. Nelson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellant.

Michael E. Allen, Public Defender, Maria Ines Suber, Asst. Public Defender, for appellees.


NIMMONS, Judge.

The appellees/defendants were charged in a two-count information with conspiracy to traffic in cocaine and with trafficking in cocaine. The state appeals from a nonfinal order suppressing each defendant's hearsay statements implicating the codefendant as a coconspirator, the court finding inapplicable the "coconspirator rule" codified in the Florida Evidence Code, Section 90.803, Florida Statutes.

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