STATE v. CASEY

No. 2D04-4460.

908 So.2d 600 (2005)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Deborah Jo CASEY, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

August 19, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Helene S. Parnes, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellant.

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and William L. Sharwell, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellee.


VILLANTI, Judge.

The State appeals the trial court's order granting Deborah Jo Casey's dispositive motion to suppress pills containing oxycodone found in her purse during a search of a vehicle incident to the arrest of the driver. We reverse.

Casey was a passenger in a vehicle stopped by a police officer at 3:30 a.m. for an inoperative tag lamp. After stopping the vehicle, the officer observed its expired out-of-state temporary tag. Upon performing a license...

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