IN RE FORFEITURE OF $61,300.00 U.S. CURR.

Nos. 90-1399, 90-1763.

576 So.2d 424 (1991)

In re FORFEITURE of $61,300.00 U.S. Currency.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

March 20, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Alfonso M. Saldana, Asst. Atty. Gen., Fort Lauderdale, for Dept. of Revenue.

Enoch J. Whitney, Gen. Counsel, and Judson M. Chapman, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Tallahassee, for Dept. of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.

David S. Glicken of the Law Office of David S. Glicken, P.A., Orlando, for Angelo B. Perry.

Jane E. Hendricks, Miami, for Thorance Earl Gaskins.


LETTS, Judge.

At issue in this forfeiture proceeding is the legality of a stop for speeding effected by a Florida Highway Patrolman. The trial judge found the stop unlawful because of insufficient proof of founded suspicion and granted the defendant's motion to dismiss. We reverse.

The defendant claims the trial judge was correct because the trooper who testified at the hearing was not the one who actually made the stop. We disagree. The trooper who testified...

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