State v. Brown

SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.

The state appeals from an order in a prosecution for possession of cannabis and of a firearm by a convicted felon suppressing the defendant’s inculpatory statement and a weapon and drugs found in his apartment. The trial court concluded that the entry into the apartment which preceded the seizure and statement was unjustified. We reverse.

I

The facts are undisputed. During an unrelated field investigation at around midnight, two Miami police officers noticed two men outside an apartment complex. One of them, Brown, had an assault-type rifle in his right hand by his side…