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KING v. STATE

No. 92-04588.

637 So.2d 956 (1994)

Kenturah L. KING, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

June 1, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George J.F. Werner, Clearwater, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and John Tiedemann, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee.

FULMER, Judge.

In this appeal we are asked to determine whether a defendant who has pled no contest to possession of drug paraphernalia may be prosecuted later for possession of the cocaine contained in the paraphernalia. Because the Supreme Court's decision in U.S. v. Dixon1 allows both prosecutions, we affirm the trial court's denial of the motion to dismiss the possession of cocaine charge.

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