LESTER v. STATE

No. 90-02698.

584 So.2d 652 (1991)

Rickey D. LESTER a/k/a Neil Morris, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

August 23, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, Bartow, and Allyn Giambalvo, Assistant Public Defender, Clearwater, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Brenda S. Taylor, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.


PATTERSON, Judge.

Rickey D. Lester appeals the denial of his motion to suppress evidence obtained as a result of the search of his person. We reverse.

On July 12, 1989, Sergeant Billington, a patrol officer for the St. Petersburg Police Department, was flagged down by a person with whom he had prior contacts. This person told him that two individuals were selling cocaine to the occupants of a brown van three blocks up the street. Billington saw the van driving...

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