State v. Brown

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

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District

Date published: Aug 13, 1997

697 So. 2d 1010 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1997)

Opinion

Case No. 96-3534

Decision filed August 13, 1997

Appeal of a non-final order from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; Carole Y. Taylor, Judge; L.T. Case No. 96-2329 CF10A.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Carol Cobourn Asbury, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Ellen Griffin, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED.

KLEIN and PARIENTE, JJ., concur.

STONE, C.J., dissents with opinion.

STONE, J., dissenting.

I would quash this trial court order granting Appellee's motion to suppress. In my judgment, unrebutted evidence reflects clear probable cause to arrest Appellee for loitering and prowling.