Jones v. State

FERGUSON, Judge.

Jones was stopped by a Key West police officer and questioned as to his reason for being on the site of a public housing project. The suspicious conduct, articulated *128by the officer as the basis for the trespass arrest, was a refusal or inability of the defendant to give the name of a person he was there to visit. An ensuing examination of his mouth revealed trace amounts of a powdery substance which was confirmed as cocaine. We agree that the arrest was without probable cause and that the illegal substance found on Jones’s person should have been suppressed. Wong Sun v. United…