WEAVER v. STATE

No. 88-1562.

548 So.2d 1198 (1989)

Amos B. WEAVER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

September 27, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Cherry Grant, Asst. Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and John M. Koenig, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for appellee.


STONE, Judge.

The defendant, Amos Weaver, appealed from a conviction for possession of cocaine. He asserted that the trial court erred in denying a motion to suppress evidence found in his sock during a warrantless search of his person. We reverse.

On two occasions on the morning in question, Weaver was observed by a passing deputy, along with a codefendant, loitering beside a railroad track, near an intersection, in a known "drug area." One of them waved...

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