RUFFIN v. STATE

No. 88-1054.

549 So.2d 250 (1989)

Lewis RUFFIN a/K/a Buster Brown, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

September 28, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James B. Gibson, Public Defender and Barbara L. Condon, Asst. Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee and Dee R. Ball, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for appellee.


COBB, Judge.

The appellant, Lewis Ruffin, appeals his convictions for possession and sale of cocaine.

On October 21, 1987, a special police task force in the Sanford area engaged in controlled purchases of alleged cocaine. Paul James, a plain-clothes police officer, purchased from a "black male" two pieces of a rock-like substance represented to be cocaine. Thereafter, the man walked away. A video and audio machine recorded the transaction. James recalled...

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