SLYDELL v. STATE

No. 4D00-1846.

792 So.2d 667 (2001)

Robert SLYDELL, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

August 29, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Ian Seldin, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Don M. Rogers, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


TAYLOR, J.

Robert Slydell appeals his conviction for resisting an officer without violence, which he contends is fundamentally erroneous because, as a matter of law, he did not commit the crime of resisting the lawful authority of a police officer. We agree and reverse.

FACTS

On January 28, 2000, at about 11:45 p.m., Stuart Police Officer Flemur Zenelovic was on patrol in the 700 block of Tarpon Avenue investigating a suspect for selling narcotics...

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