Gallagher v. Mansbridge

COBB, Judge.

This is an appeal by the sheriff of Orange County regarding the dismissal of a forfeiture action involving a motor vehicle. On June 5, 1989, the appellee, John Mans-bridge, went to Ace’s Juke on Willow *633Street in Zellwood, Orange County, Florida. Deputy Julia Chapman was posing as a crack cocaine dealer at that location and when Mr. Mansbridge approached this establishment, he parked his 1973 Datsun pickup truck just west of the building in the parking area and remained in his car. Deputy Chapman went to the driver’s window of Mansbridge’s pickup and asked Mansbridge what he…