Legal Opinion
State v. Whitfield
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided February 10, 1984No. 83-1561PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OTT, Chief Judge.
Elgertha Whitfield was charged with grand theft. The trial court granted her pretrial motion to suppress certain incriminating statements on the ground that she was not given Miranda1 warnings. The state appeals, and we reverse.
On January 19, 1983, a man and a woman allegedly stole a sport coat from a Hubert Rutland Department Store. An alert store employee pursued the couple and recorded the auto tag number of the escape vehicle. Detective Robert Stinson of the St. Petersburg Police Department traced the auto tag number, determining that the record owner of the vehicle was…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Oregon v. MathiasonSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- United States v. Arthur Mitchell LueckCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1982
- State v. ClarkDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1980
- B.L. v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1983
3Cited by3 opinions
- State v. AliotoDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1991
- Kee v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1987
- Augustine v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1988