STATE v. PAGE

No. 4D10-4188.

73 So.3d 351 (2011)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Eric PAGE, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

November 2, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Georgina Jimenez-Orosa , Senior Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Carey Haughwout , Public Defender, and Emily Ross-Booker , Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


LEVINE, J.

The issue presented in this case is whether a law enforcement officer's use of appellee's name and date of birth for a warrants check turns a consensual encounter into an encounter requiring reasonable suspicion. We find that the mere act of running appellee's name for an active warrants check does not require reasonable suspicion. Therefore, we find that the trial court erred, reverse the granting of the motion to suppress, and remand for findings of fact...

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