Legal Opinion

State v. Leveque

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided September 7, 1988No. 87-2335PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

STONE, Judge.

The state appeals an order granting a motion to suppress evidence discovered pursuant to a search warrant on the basis that the language in the warrant was “vague, overbroad and not particularly descriptive.” We reverse.

An undercover detective executed an affidavit in support of the warrant, stating that he had personally engaged in a drug purchase in the apartment of a man called Hector. Hector had taken the detective’s money into the apartment bathroom and returned with cocaine. The detective had information from an informant that there was another door in the bathroom and that…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Maryland v. GarrisonSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
  2. Steele v. United States No. 1Supreme Court of the United States · 1925
  3. United States v. Kenneth Joe Whitten, John Elmer Gaiefsky, Jack Wayne Gish, Richard Lawrence ShimelCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1983
  4. United States v. Frank Robert Gilman, Jr., and Richard Joseph MartinCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1982
  5. United States v. Ronald Arthur OfsheCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1987

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3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. SmithCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1995
  2. Ray Tremaine Bennett v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2014

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