Monocandilos v. State

ARDEN M. SIEGENDORF, Circuit Judge.

May a county court judge compel an unwilling defendant to produce his driver’s license for the purpose of identification at a traffic infraction hearing? This intriguing constitutional question is presented here but not decided because evidentiary considerations require reversal in the instant case, Green v. Peters, 140 So.2d 601 (Fla. 1962).

The facts are not in dispute. The sole witness at the hearing below was a police officer who was unable to identify the defendant as the driver of the vehicle to whom he had issued the citation for imporper lane change.…