STATE v. JOHNSON

No. 71631.

561 So.2d 1139 (1990)

STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Paul Clive JOHNSON, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

May 10, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Ellen D. Phillips and Walter M. Meginniss, Asst. Attys. Gen., Tallahassee, for petitioner.

Carl H. Lida of the Law Offices of Carl H. Lida, P.A., Miami, for respondent.

Enoch J. Whitney, General Counsel, and R.W. Evans, Asst. General Counsel, Tallahassee, amicus curiae for Dept. of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.

Richard Lubin, West Palm Beach, and Nancy Hollander of Freedman, Boyd & Daniels, P.A., Albuquerque, N.M., amicus curiae for Nat. Ass'n of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Arthur Joel Berger, Miami, amicus curiae for Florida Ass'n of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Miami Chapter.


BARKETT, Justice.

We have for review State v. Johnson, 516 So.2d 1015 (Fla. 5th DCA 1987), which certified the following question of great public importance:

May a profile of similarities of drug couriers, which is developed by a law enforcement officer and which, in light of his experience, suggests the likelihood of drug trafficking, be relied upon by him to form an articulable or founded suspicion which will justify...

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