Matthew A. Tobin v. State of Florida

We have for review the trial court’s denial of Appellant’s dispositive motion to suppress evidence he was driving with a suspended or revoked license, 1 which led the court to find Appellant in violation of community control. Because the deputy sheriff who stopped Appellant’s vehicle lacked the reasonable, articulable suspicion of criminal activity necessary to justify what the court determined — and the State conceded — was an investigatory stop, we conclude the court erred in denying the motion to suppress.

Appellant was on two years’ community control, followed by two years’ probation, for…