FOSTER v. STATE

No. 1D07-1066.

969 So.2d 1202 (2007)

Robert FOSTER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

December 12, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and David A. Davis, Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, and Thomas D. Winokur, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.


PER CURIAM.

Robert Foster appeals his convictions for separate counts of sale and possession of cocaine. We affirm Foster's conviction for sale because competent, substantial evidence supports it. We reverse the conviction for possession because no evidence, other than a police officer's testimony that he found a baggy of cocaine on the ground near Foster after police officers swooped in to arrest him, supports the inference that he possessed the illicit drug, actually...

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