Bell v. State

Marquis L. Bell, Jr., appeals his adjudication for violation of probation. We affirm the trial court’s finding that Bell violated his probation by possessing illicit drugs based upon this court’s precedent in Terry v. State, 777 So.2d 1093 (Fla. 5th DCA 2001), which held that a probation officer’s testimony regarding positive results of an on-site or “field” drug test that the officer personally conducted, along with hearsay evidence from a positive laboratory test on the same urine sample, constituted competent, substantial evidence sufficient to support a finding that the defendant violated…