M.R. v. STATE

No. 3D09-1074.

34 So.3d 143 (2010)

M.R., a juvenile, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

April 21, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlos J. Martinez, Public Defender, and Lisa M. Pisciotta, Ross C. Paolino and Nicolas Swerdloff, Special Assistant Public Defenders, for appellant.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, and Timothy R.M. Thomas, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Before COPE and GERSTEN, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.


SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.

The conduct of the appellant juvenile, a sixteen-year-old female, which consisted only of walking down the street in a "high prostitution area" at 9:30 in the evening1, did not give rise to the founded or articulable suspicion of unlawful activity necessary to justify the Terry stop effected by the police when, after engaging in a consensual and uneventful conversation, they placed her in their patrol car...

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