Opinion
No. 4D04-907.
February 2, 2005.
Appeal of a non-final order from the Circuit Court for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Palm Beach County; Lucy Chernow Brown, Judge; L.T. Case No. 02-10751 CFC02.
Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Laurel R. Wiley, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
V. Lynn Whitfield of Walton Lantaff Schroeder Carson LLP, West Palm Beach, for appellee.
The trial court granted defendant's motion to suppress because a deputy came through a gate into defendant's backyard without a search warrant. The state asserted that there were exigent circumstances, however, the trial court found that there were not and granted the motion. Because the backyard was clearly within the curtilage of defendant's home, State v. Sarantopoulos, 604 So.2d 551 (Fla. 2d DCA 1992), and there is evidence to support the findings, we affirm.
POLEN, KLEIN and SHAHOOD, JJ., concur.