PER CURIAM.
The State appeals an order suppressing evidence of marijuana that a deputy sheriff found in the tractor of appellee Dave Ford's semi-truck. The record demonstrates the deputy sheriff searched the tractor pursuant to a consensual encounter that followed a lawful traffic stop. "[I]f a valid traffic stop has had its lawful function completed and turns into a citizen encounter, there is no reason a law enforcement officer cannot ask for consent to search....
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