STATE v. AUGUSTINE

No. 98-00558.

724 So.2d 580 (1998)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Richard J. AUGUSTINE, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied December 15, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Wendy Buffington, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellant.

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, Bartow, and Brad Permar, Assistant Public Defender, Clearwater, for Appellee.


THREADGILL, Acting Chief Judge.

In this capital sexual battery case, the State challenges an interlocutory order suppressing certain photographic and testimonial evidence obtained from a post-arrest strip search of the appellee, Richard J. Augustine. We reverse.

Augustine was arrested pursuant to a valid warrant, after an eleven-year-old female revealed that he had been forcing her to perform certain sexual acts on him for the past year. In an interview with...

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