STATE v. KINNANE

No. 95-00565.

689 So.2d 1088 (1996)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Sandra Kay KINNANE, a/k/a Sandra Cruzan, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied January 28, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Brenda S. Taylor, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellant.

Ralph W. Rinehart, Tampa, for Appellee.


PATTERSON, Judge.

The state challenges the trial court's order granting Sandra Kinnane's motion to suppress on the ground that the officers' stop of Kinnane's car was pretextual. The state argues that the stop for a traffic infraction was valid. We agree and reverse.

On July 1, 1994, Officers Parks and Wuzinski were conducting a surveillance of Sandra and David Kinnane's residence on which a search warrant had been issued, but not yet served. The Kinnanes...

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