Legal Opinion
State v. Ridgway
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided September 16, 1998No. 97-00610PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALTENBERND, Judge.
The State appeals the trial court’s order granting Bernie Ridgway’s motion to suppress evidence. We affirm the suppression of certain videotapes without discussion. We reverse the suppression of photographs found during the course of a legal search.
In January 1996, the Pasco County Sheriffs Department received information from a *319reliable source that Mr. Ridgway was selling methamphetamine from his mobile home and that he had engaged in sexual misconduct with a 15-year-old girl. The misconduct was allegedly documented in Polaroid photographs. Detectives monitored several…
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- State v. WatermanDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1994
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