LORD v. STATE

No. 91-2147.

616 So.2d 1065 (1993)

Leroy LORD, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

April 6, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Harvey J. Sepler, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Richard S. Fechter, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and FERGUSON and LEVY, JJ.


FERGUSON, Judge.

Lord appeals his conviction and six-year sentence for possession of cocaine based on the discovery, by laboratory testing, that a one-dollar bill he discarded as the police approached contained trace amounts of the drug. We reverse.

The appellant was observed, by a Monroe County deputy sheriff, bent over into the window of a parked car speaking to an occupant. From his police cruiser the deputy shined his spotlight on the appellant, got out...

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