STATE v. LOPEZ

No. 3D09-1504.

29 So.3d 399 (2010)

The STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Elvis LOPEZ, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

March 3, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, and Forrest L. Andrews, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for appellant.

Allen S. Katz, Miami, for appellee.

Before SHEPHERD and SUAREZ, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.


SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.

The State appeals from an order in a prosecution for cocaine trafficking and conspiracy which suppressed self-incriminating statements obtained after a Terry stop the lower court found was unsupported by founded suspicion of the defendant's involvement in criminal activity. We reverse.

I.

The case stems from an undercover drug arrest. On June 12, 2008, undercover detective...

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