LEVINE v. STATE

No. 96-1376.

684 So.2d 903 (1996)

Rodney LEVINE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

December 26, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Gary Caldwell, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Joan L. Greenberg, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


KLEIN, Judge.

Acting on information received from an informant, police officers and the informant made an attempt to buy cocaine from appellant who was selling it out of his motel room. Because police forced their way in without a warrant when there were no exigent circumstances to justify entry, we suppress the drugs which they found inside.

The informant, after being stopped for driving without a license, offered to tell police the location of his cocaine...

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