STATE v. DESANTIAGO

No. 5D01-331.

791 So.2d 1211 (2001)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Juan Francisco DeSANTIAGO, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

August 17, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Wesley Heidt, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.

James B. Gibson, Public Defender, and Nancy Ryan, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.


HARRIS, J.

The purpose of Miranda1 is not to reward the defendant because of police overreaching; it is to deny law enforcement the benefits derived from the overreaching in order to discourage such improper police conduct. Evidence properly obtained, however, should not be suppressed merely because of subsequent police improprieties. Therefore, the trial judge had no basis for striking statements

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