SIPLIN v. STATE

No. 2D00-3887.

795 So.2d 1010 (2001)

Johnny SIPLIN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

September 5, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Helene S. Parnes, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.


GREEN, Judge.

Johnny Siplin appeals his convictions for possession of heroin and cocaine and argues that the evidence should have been suppressed. We reverse because Siplin was unlawfully stopped by the investigating officer before he consented to a display of the contraband in his possession.

A hearing was conducted on Mr. Siplin's motion to suppress. At the suppression hearing, Officer Barry Books of the St. Petersburg...

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