State v. Hollingshead

The State of Florida appeals a trial court order granting Defendant’s, Rodney Hollingshead, motion to suppress a firearm seized by police from an automobile where it was stored and secured by Defendant before an approaching detective was able to arrest him for the crime of carrying a concealed firearm. We conclude the police validly seized the firearm after Defendant’s arrest pursuant to the “automobile exception” engrafted on the Fourth Amendment’s “warrant requirement,” and accordingly reverse the decision of the trial court.

On August 18, 2005, at about 9:30 p.m., Crime Suppression Team…