State v. Govea

Notwithstanding the trial court’s strongly expressed misgivings about the correctness of decisional law which permits police officers, without any articulable suspicion that a person has committed or is about to commit a crime, to engage such person in conversation and request such person’s consent to a search, this is the law by which both this court and the trial court are bound. Art. I, § 12, Fla.Const.; Florida v. Rodriguez, 469 U.S. 1,105 S.Ct. 308, 83 L.Ed.2d 165 (1984); Florida v. Royer, 460 U.S. 491,103 S.Ct. 1319, 75 L.Ed.2d 229 (1983). See also Login v. State, 394 So.2d 183 (Fla. 3d…