STATE v. EDENFIELD

No. 2D08-5910.

27 So.3d 222 (2010)

STATE of Florida, Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. Michael Byron EDENFIELD, Appellee/Cross-Appellant.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

February 12, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Anne Sheer Weiner, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellant/Cross-Appellee.

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Richard J. Sanders, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellee/Cross-Appellant.


VILLANTI, Judge.

The State appeals the trial court's order suppressing statements made by Michael Byron Edenfield to a deputy sheriff. Because Edenfield was in jail when he made the incriminating statements, the trial court concluded that he was automatically entitled, without exception, to be read Miranda1 warnings before any conversations with a law enforcement officer could occur. Because the trial court's order relies...

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