A.T. v. State

A.T. appeals the disposition order in which the trial court found him guilty of resisting an officer without violence and withheld adjudication. He argues that the trial court should have granted his motion for judgment of dismissal because the state failed to establish that the officer had reasonable suspicion to justify an investigatory detention when appellant refused the officer’s request for identification and attempted to walk away from the officer. We are compelled to agree and therefore reverse.

During appellant’s trial, an officer from the Davie Police Department testified that on…