LEAGUE v. STATE

No. 4D99-4009.

778 So.2d 1086 (2001)

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

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

March 7, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Margaret Good-Earnest, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Alison B. Cutler, Assistant Attorney General, Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.


WARNER, C.J.

Appellant challenges his conviction for purchase and possession of cocaine on the ground that the police stopped and seized him without probable cause. We hold that the anonymous tip on which the police acted was confirmed and independently corroborated by the activity they witnessed prior to seizing appellant. Therefore, the seizure did not violate the Fourth Amendment.

Detective Rivers, an eleven year veteran of the Vero Beach Police Deportment...

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