LANE v. STATE

No. 2D13-2656.

145 So.3d 940 (2014)

Heath LANE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

August 22, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard L. Dimmig, II , Public Defender, and Robert D. Rosen , Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, Tallahassee, and C. Suzanne Bechard , Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.


NORTHCUTT, Judge.

Heath Lane appeals following a withheld adjudication for possession of hydrocodone. He argues, and we agree, that the circuit court erred in denying his motion to suppress the contraband. Accordingly, we reverse.

After completing an unrelated traffic stop, a sheriff's deputy began a consensual encounter with Lane, an eighteen-year-old high school student who was walking along a sidewalk nearby. The deputy turned off the lights on his patrol...

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