Thomas v. State

NORTHCUTT, Judge.

Wilburn Thomas pleaded no contest to possessing methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia and to resisting an officer without violence, reserving his right to appeal the denial of his dispositive motion to suppress evidence. We reverse because the evidence was obtained during an illegal traffic stop.

Late one evening, two Haines City police officers sitting in an unmarked vehicle noticed a car sitting with its parking lights on behind a business. The business was closed, but the gates in the fence surrounding it, which were usually shut, were not. The business owner had…