JONES v. STATE

No. 73809.

559 So.2d 1096 (1990)

Tony Topha JONES, Etc., Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied May 24, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Gary Caldwell, Asst. Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for petitioner.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Joan Fowler and John Tiedemann, Asst. Attys. Gen., West Palm Beach, for respondent.


BARKETT, Justice.

We have for review State v. Jones, 537 So.2d 153 (Fla. 4th DCA 1989), wherein the district court certified the following question:

May evidence, obtained as a result of defendant's consent to search, be suppressed by the trial court as "coerced" upon the sole ground that the officer(s) boarded a bus (or other public transport) and randomly sought consent...

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