STATE v. HACKETT

No. 4D05-2798.

944 So.2d 399 (2006)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Patrick James HACKETT, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied January 16, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Mark J. Hamel, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Cory S. Robins of Law Office of Cory S. Robins, P.A., Hollywood, for appellee.


FARMER, J.

After stopping a vehicle with a driver and two passengers, the officer issued a notice of civil traffic infraction. The purpose of the stop having been entirely fulfilled at that point, the officer nevertheless sought to lengthen the encounter by seeking permission to search the vehicle— which the driver extended. When the officer found a crack cocaine pipe, he arrested the driver for criminal possession of drug paraphernalia. He determined at that...

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