Johnny James Tims v. State of Florida

Johnny James. Tims responded violently when law enforcement officers sought to question him about domestic violence allegations. He pleaded no contest to three charges relating to that violent response, but he reserved the right to appeal the order denying his motion to suppress. In Tims’s view, the officers had no right to be where they were, so any evidence that Tims battered them, resisted with violence, or knocked equipment from an officer’s hand must be suppressed as fruit of the poisonous tree. We reject that view and affirm.

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