LEDO v. STATE

No. 90-1391.

587 So.2d 632 (1991)

Augustine Antonio LEDO, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

October 15, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Howard K. Blumberg, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Joan L. Greenberg, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and NESBITT and JORGENSON, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

We reverse the defendant's cocaine trafficking conviction and order a new trial based on the following analysis.

The defendant was driving a car which police stopped. Upon observing a marijuana cigarette in the vehicle, the police officer undertook a search, found a cardboard box containing cocaine and arrested the defendant. At trial the defendant answered a cocaine trafficking charge with the defense that the car he was driving belonged to his...

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