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STATE v. EVERETT

No. 95-02021.

671 So.2d 161 (1996)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Harold EVERETT, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied March 18, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Helene S. Parnes, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellant.

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and John T. Kilcrease, Jr., Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellee.

QUINCE, Judge.

The state seeks reversal of an order of the trial court granting Harold Everett's motion to suppress evidence obtained after a traffic stop. We reverse because the stop was not pretextual; a reasonable officer would have stopped the vehicle absent an additional invalid purpose.

A police officer observed Everett's vehicle abruptly turn right without signalling. The officer was travelling behind Everett's vehicle, and he stopped Everett based...

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