STATE v. CANNON

No. 4D09-3545.

57 So.3d 892 (2011)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Wilson CANNON, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied April 21, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Mark J. Hamel , Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Carey Haughwout , Public Defender, and Ellen Griffin , Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


POLEN, J.

The State appeals from the dismissal of sale of cocaine and possession charges against appellee. The issue is whether the undercover officers' actions, in giving appellee cocaine after the transaction was complete and allowing him to go into the community with that substance, violated due process and required that the charges against appellee be dismissed. We answer that question in the affirmative, but as to the possession charge only. The sale of cocaine...

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