Beasley v. State

In this direct criminal appeal, appellant seeks review of the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress evidence seized as the result of a stop for a purported traffic infraction. Because no search warrant was issued, the state was obliged at the suppression hearing to demonstrate that the evidence sought to be suppressed *221was lawfully obtained. See State v. Setzler, 667 So.2d 343, 345 (Fla. 1st DCA 1995). In its brief, the state concedes that it failed to establish at the suppression hearing that the officer had any objective reasonable basis to believe that appellant had committed a…