COLEMAN v. STATE

No. 96-03879.

707 So.2d 767 (1998)

Ronald COLEMAN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

January 9, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Jennifer Y. Fogle, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Tonja R. Vickers, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.


PER CURIAM.

Ronald Coleman appeals the trial court's denial of his motion to suppress cocaine evidence allegedly seized as the result of an illegal stop. Because the police could articulate no reasonable and well-founded suspicion of criminal activity by Coleman, the investigatory stop was not justified and the motion to suppress should have been granted. We reverse.

Sergeant Giddens, a Lakeland police officer, observed...

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