STATE v. CONDE

No. 4D05-2245.

924 So.2d 897 (2006)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Mitchel CONDE, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied April 19, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Melanie Dale Surber, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Phillip Menditto of Fred Haddad, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.


KLEIN, J.

This is an appeal from an order suppressing cocaine which the defendant dropped while running from the police. Although the police did not have reasonable suspicion to stop the defendant, there is no evidence to support the only basis for suppression, that the illegal stop occurred before the drop. Because the stop did not occur until the police caught up with defendant, after he dropped the cocaine, the seizure of the cocaine was lawful. California v...

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