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State v. Brown

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District
Sep 11, 1991
584 So. 2d 656 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1991)

Opinion

No. 90-1311.

September 11, 1991.

Appeal of a non-final order from the Circuit Court for Broward County; Thomas M. Coker, Jr., Judge.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Carol Cobourn Asbury, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Harry G. Robbins, North Miami Beach, for appellee.


We remand for further evidentiary proceedings in accordance with Florida v. Bostick, ___ U.S. ___, 111 S.Ct. 2382, 115 L.Ed.2d 389 (1991). The trial court's order granting appellee's motion to suppress contained no factual findings regarding the circumstances of the search. Rather, the trial court explicitly based its ruling on the Florida Supreme Court's holding in Bostick v. State, 554 So.2d 1153 (Fla. 1989), that the Broward Sheriff's Office practice of boarding buses and asking passengers at random for consent to search was unconstitutional per se. In view of the United States Supreme Court's rejection of this per se rule, we remand so that the trial court may determine whether a seizure in fact did occur considering "all of the circumstances surrounding the encounter." Bostick, ___ U.S. ___, 111 S.Ct. at 2389, 115 L.Ed.2d at ___.

DELL and GARRETT, JJ., concur.

GLICKSTEIN, C.J., concurs specially with opinion.


I concur out of obligation and refer the reader to my special concurrence in State v. Kuntzwiler, 585 So.2d 1096 (Fla. 4th DCA 1991).


Summaries of

State v. Brown

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District
Sep 11, 1991
584 So. 2d 656 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1991)
Case details for

State v. Brown

Case Details

Full title:STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLANT, v. MARY BROWN, APPELLEE

Court:District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District

Date published: Sep 11, 1991

Citations

584 So. 2d 656 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1991)

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