WATSON v. STATE

No. 4D02-4496.

877 So.2d 914 (2004)

Jake WATSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

July 21, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Alan T. Lipson, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Georgina Jimenez-Orosa, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


KLEIN, J.

Appellant was convicted of possession with intent to sell cocaine. We reverse because the state failed to prove that he possessed the cocaine, which was found in a bedroom in which he was present.

After obtaining a warrant, the police entered the bedroom of an apartment of appellant's grandmother. The officers, when they entered the bedroom, observed the appellant lying on a bed. Appellant's cousin was...

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