HUNT v. STATE

No. 96-00972.

700 So.2d 94 (1997)

Damian Jamal HUNT, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

October 3, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Robert D. Rosen, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Ann Pfeiffer Corcoran, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.


QUINCE, Judge.

Damian Hunt challenges his conviction and sentence for possession of cocaine. He argues the trial court erred by denying his motion to suppress because the cocaine was recovered during an unlawful pat-down search. We reverse the trial court's denial of the motion because the circumstances surrounding the search did not give rise to a reasonable belief that Hunt was armed.

The facts of the case are essentially undisputed. Hunt was stopped by...

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