State v. E.A.

The State appeals an order granting juvenile E.A.’s motion to suppress. We reverse and remand for the trial judge to *1007enter adequate findings of fact determining the credibility of testimony on the issue of whether or not a seizure within the Fourth Amendment had occurred to implicate a finding on probable cause.

At the motion to suppress hearing, on December 27, 2007, a Miami-Dade police officer testified that he approached the car in which E.A. was a passenger because the vehicle was blocking the entrance to the driveway to a residence. As the officer approached the vehicle, he smelled the…