STATE v. GIDDENS

No. 93-232.

633 So.2d 503 (1994)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Robert Nmn GIDDENS, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

March 4, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Robin Compton Jones, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for appellant.

James B. Gibson, Public Defender, and Lyle Hitchens, Asst. Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for appellee.


DIAMANTIS, Judge.

We reverse the trial court's order entering a judgment of acquittal notwithstanding the jury verdict, which found the defendant guilty of the offense of resisting an officer with violence. See § 843.01, Fla. Stat. (1991). The trial court entered the order based on its post-trial finding that the officer's stop and detention of the defendant was illegal.

We conclude that this was error because the defendant was not privileged to...

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