UNION v. STATE

No. 94-01474.

660 So.2d 803 (1995)

Tara UNION, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

September 22, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ellis Rexwood Curry IV, Tampa, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Kimberly D. Nolen, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

The defendant, Tara Union, appeals the denial of her motion to suppress cocaine found in her purse during the search of a car in which she was a passenger. We reverse because the state failed to prove that the warrantless search of the car was justified as either a search incident to arrest or a search based on probable cause.

The following undisputed facts were presented by stipulation. Union was a passenger in a car also occupied by two men who...

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