State v. Castillo
District Court of Appeal of Florida
1Opinion of the Court
GERSTEN, Judge.
The State appeals from an order granting a motion to suppress evidence which was seized during a traffic stop. We affirm.
The salient scene starts in a rather somnolent setting. Jorge Enrique Castillo, the appellee, did nothing afield of the mundane. He did nothing to alert, call attention to, or otherwise arouse suspicion of anyone, let alone law enforcement. Appel-lee evoked such little suspicion that the State conceded, both at the trial level and here, that there was no articulable suspicion to support any stop of appellee. The State instead asserts this was a consensual…
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- Norman v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1980
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- Johnson v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1983
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