State v. Knox

This is an appeal by the state from a trial court order dismissing an information under Fla.R.Crim.P. 3.190(c)(4). The information charged the defendant Rodney Knox with the crime of escape [§ 944.40, Fla. Stat. (1987)]. We affirm.

The sworn motion to dismiss together with the state’s traverse alleged without dispute that* after the defendant was arrested by a police officer and placed in the back seat of a police car which could not be unlocked from the inside, a white male subsequently came by, unlocked the police car, and authorized the defendant to leave; believing the white male to be a…