FOSTER v. STATE

No. 96-3315.

704 So.2d 169 (1997)

Guillermo FOSTER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

December 17, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Allen J. DeWeese, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Ettie Feistmann, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


STEVENSON, Judge.

Appellant, who was tried by jury and convicted of unarmed robbery, challenges both the denial of his pre-trial motion to suppress evidence as well as an alleged denial of his right to counsel. We find no error in the court's disposition of the motion to suppress, but we reverse the conviction because we agree that appellant was improperly denied privately-retained counsel of his choice to represent him at trial.1

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