POWELL v. STATE

No. 89-00942.

592 So.2d 785 (1992)

Jerome A. POWELL, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

January 31, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Deborah K. Brueckheimer, Asst. Public Defender, Bartow, for appellant.

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


CAMPBELL, Acting Chief Judge.

Appellant, convicted of possession of cocaine and obstructing an officer, argues that the court should have granted his motion to suppress the cocaine that officers discovered in his pocket during a search of his person. We agree and, accordingly, reverse.

Briefly, two Tampa officers on patrol received a dispatch that there was a fight at a certain location and that one of the individuals was a black male wearing blue jeans and...

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