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KERR v. STATE

No. 4D03-3103.

954 So.2d 692 (2007)

Khareem KERR, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

April 18, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Tatjana Ostapoff, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Daniel P. Hyndman, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

FARMER, J.

When a person has possession of property known to have been recently stolen the law recognizes two rebuttable presumptions arising from such possession: (1) a common law presumption that the possessor stole the property, see State v. Young, 217 So.2d 567, 571 (Fla.1968) ("In the case of possession of recently stolen goods . . . the inference that the possessor is the guilty taker is so strong that the rules of...

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