Faith v. State

Susan Faith (appellant) asserts error in the trial court’s denial of her dispositive motion to suppress evidence of possession of a controlled substance and resisting without violence. Concluding that the officer obtained the evidence supporting these convictions as a direct or indirect result of appellant’s illegal arrest and that no exception to the exclusionary rule was shown to apply, we reverse the convictions for possession and resisting. See Williams v. State, 993 So.2d 1179 (Fla. 4th DCA 2008).

While conducting a traffic stop of a car in which appellant was a passenger, an officer…