McCLOUD v. STATE

No. 97-3026.

717 So.2d 132 (1998)

Mindiaza McCLOUD, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

September 9, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Tatjana Ostapoff, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Myra J. Fried, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


KLEIN, Judge.

The issue presented by this appeal is whether appellant's actions in attempting to flag down approaching vehicles gave police officers, who had been observing this behavior, founded suspicion to detain him. We affirm.

The officers' attention was first drawn to the appellant and other men, who were standing in a vacant lot, because they had come out in the road as the officers drove by and attempted to flag down the officers, who were in an unmarked...

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