WILLIAMS v. STATE

No. 5D04-1497.

910 So.2d 368 (2005)

Simeon WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

September 16, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and Rose M. Levering, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Pamela J. Koller, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.


GRIFFIN, J.

Simeon Williams ["Williams"] appeals the denial of his motion to suppress. He was charged with possession of cocaine and resisting arrest without violence. He filed a motion to suppress a cigar tube and cocaine found in his pocket, arguing among other things that the evidence was obtained as the result of an illegal investigatory detention. We agree and reverse.

At the suppression hearing, Officer Anthony Marchica of the Cocoa Police Department...

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