CLEMONS v. STATE

Nos. 99-910, 99-911.

747 So.2d 454 (1999)

Alphonso CLEMONS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

December 15, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Steven H. Malone, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Jeanine M. Germanowicz, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


WARNER, C.J.

After the trial court denied appellant's motion to suppress cocaine which he dropped as officers approached him, appellant pled to the charges, reserving the right to appeal the denial of the motion. He claims that he was effectively stopped without founded suspicion when one officer approached him from the front and one from the back, and that as a result his dropping of the cocaine rock was in submission to a show of authority. Because the appellant...

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