STATE v. HAMILTON

No. 94-03680.

665 So.2d 310 (1995)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Lorenzo HAMILTON, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

December 15, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Erica M. Raffel, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellant.

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Kenneth D. Whitfield, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellee.


QUINCE, Judge.

The State challenges the trial court's order granting Lorenzo Hamilton's motion to suppress. We reverse because the police officers had a founded suspicion of criminal activity and were justified in pursuing Hamilton and detaining him.

On April 30, 1994, Corporal Ray Whiteley was on patrol in the Baskins Ridge area of Pinellas County. The area is known for drug activities, and there had been a number of citizen complaints about people standing...

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