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Young v. State

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TAVARIS YOUNG, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. No. 4D07-1758. District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District. June 4, 2008. Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, St. Lucie County, Burton C. Conner, Judge, L.T. Case No. 562005CF001453A. Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, John Pauly, Jr., and Christine Johnson, Assistant Public Defenders, West Palm Beach, for appellant. Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Mark J. Hamel, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee. DAMOORGIAN, J. Tavaris Young appeals the denial of his motion to suppress on the grounds that the evidence was seized after an illegal stop. We reverse the denial of the motion to suppress because the encounter in this case was not consensual and there was no reasonable suspicion or probable cause to justify the stop...continue to full post

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