STATE v. LEE

No. 5D06-2993.

957 So.2d 76 (2007)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Aaron Tyrone LEE, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

May 11, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Mary G. Jolley, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.

James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and Allison Havens, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.


GRIFFIN, J.

The State of Florida appeals the trial court's order suppressing evidence relating to the arrest of Aaron Tyrone Lee ["Defendant"]. We reverse.

On February 7, 2005, at about 10:00 p.m., Deputy Sheriff Gould was patrolling a roadway in the Melbourne area. When he was about forty to fifty feet away from Defendant's car, Deputy Gould noticed that the tag light on the 1998 Plymouth Neon, driven by Defendant, was not working. Deputy Gould turned his...

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