STATE v. STARKEY

No. 89-2664.

559 So.2d 335 (1990)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Martin J. STARKEY, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

April 3, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Virlindia A. Sample, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for appellant.

Louis O. Frost, Public Defender, and James T. Miller, Asst. Public Defender, Jacksonville, for appellee.


ALLEN, Judge.

In this murder prosecution the state appeals a pre-trial order suppressing evidence consisting of pistol cartridges seized without a warrant from the interior of appellee's automobile. Since the officer who seized the cartridges had pre-intrusive probable cause to believe that the vehicle contained evidence of a crime, we hold, even in the absence of any showing of exigent circumstances, that the officer had authority to enter the vehicle, which was...

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