STATE v. BURKE

No. 5D01-3618.

847 So.2d 1010 (2003)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Arthur Lee BURKE, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Rehearing Denied June 26, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Belle B. Schumann, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.

Robert R. Mulcahy of Furnell & Mulcahy, Orlando, for Appellee.


THOMPSON, C.J.

The state appeals the trial court's order which granted a motion to suppress because the state's key witness, a police officer, failed to appear at the suppression hearing. We affirm.

Arthur Lee Burke was charged with possession of cocaine with intent to sell or deliver, possession of less than 20 grams of marijuana, and resisting an officer without violence. Burke filed a motion to suppress, alleging that he was illegally stopped and seeking...

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