PALMER v. STATE

No. 2D99-1122.

753 So.2d 679 (2000)

Tragus PALMER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

March 15, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Carol J.Y. Wilson, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and John M. Klawikofsky, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.


PARKER, Judge.

Tragus Palmer (Palmer) challenges his conviction for possession of cocaine, entered after he pleaded no contest while reserving his right to appeal the denial of his dispositive motion to suppress. Because the police continued to detain Palmer after the justification for the initial stop had ended, we reverse.

At midnight on October 19, 1998, Manatee County Sheriff's Deputy Harris saw Palmer sitting in his car in a motel parking lot speaking...

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