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3rd DCA ROUNDUP

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

After a brief pause, we return with relish to our examination of the the cases that make us tick. In Mathis v. State, Judge Ramirez, who's getting better and better as he gets older, puts the legal kibosh on Judge Areces's denial of a motion to suppress. In Mathis, the court held that an informant's tip that describes where an individual is selling drugs, and what that individual looks like, but does not contain how the informant knows the individual is actually selling drugs, (meaning the tip does does fully describe the manner of selling drugs, and what drugs are being sold) is not sufficient to provide an officer probable cause to stop and search. PD's office 1-Areces 0. In KH v. State, the court found the evidence was legally insufficient to justify a conviction for battery on a police officer...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on April 08, 2009 (boomark / email).