Legal Opinion

W.G. v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided July 24, 2013No. 3D12-2356Published

1Opinion of the Court

SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.

The appellant, a thirteen-year-old female, was adjudicated delinquent for possession of a firearm discovered after she allegedly gave consent to a police search of her backpack. The search followed a detention apparently based solely on her being in the company of what were described in a BOLO initiated by the victim as seven males involved in a robbery.

Because there was obviously no founded or reasonable suspicion to justify stopping *270and detaining a person of a different gender than those described, see A.V. v. State, 81 So.3d 587 (Fla. 3d DCA 2012), the confinement…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. Hill v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2010

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