T.W.C. v. State

ALTENBERND, Judge.

T.W.C. appeals his delinquency disposition following the denial of a dispositive motion to suppress. We reverse.

On January 11,1995, at approximately 6:30 p.m., two Pasco County deputy sheriffs stopped a car because it had an expired tag. T.W.C.’s mother was driving the car. T.W.C. and his sister were the only passengers. They all exited the ear and stood on the side of the road.

T.W.C., who was fourteen at the time, asked to go to the bathroom. One of the deputies escorted him to a drainage ditch adjacent to this rural road. T.W.C. was nervous and “fidgeting.” The deputy…