STATE v. KOONTZ

Case No. 5D20-2203.

320 So.3d 993 (2021)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. William Austin KOONTZ, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Opinion filed June 18, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ashley Moody , Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Kaylee D. Tatman , Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.

David G. Mengers , Ocala, for Appellee.


The State appeals the trial court's grant of William Koontz's motion to suppress evidence obtained from a warrantless search of a motor vehicle. We reverse.

Koontz and his companion, Ricci Benner, were fishing along the riverbank of the Ocklawaha River in Marion County when two Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission ("FWC") officers observed...

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