STATE v. HOLLINGSHEAD

No. 3D06-2103.

974 So.2d 1123 (2008)

The STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Rodney HOLLINGSHEAD, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied February 22, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, and Lucretia A. Pitts, Assistant Attorney General, for appellant.

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, Howard K. Blumberg, Assistant Public Defender, and Emily Lora Mallor and Christopher J. Smith, Certified Legal Interns, for appellee.

Before GREEN, SHEPHERD, and LAGOA, JJ.


SHEPHERD, J.

The State of Florida appeals a trial court order granting Defendant's, Rodney Hollingshead, motion to suppress a firearm seized by police from an automobile where it was stored and secured by Defendant before an approaching detective was able to arrest him for the crime of carrying a concealed firearm. We conclude the police validly seized the firearm after Defendant's arrest pursuant to the "automobile exception" engrafted on the Fourth Amendment's ...

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