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D.A. v. State, No. 3D06-3122 (Fla. App. 4/29/2009) (Fla. App., 2009)

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D.A., a juvenile, Appellant, v. The State of Florida, Appellee. No. 3D06-3122 District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District. Opinion filed April 29, 2009.An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Douglas Chumbley, Judge, Lower Tribunal No. 06-5561 Carlos J. Martinez, Public Defender, and Harvey J. Sepler, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant. Bill McCollum, Attorney General, and Angel L. Fleming, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee. Before SHEPHERD and SUAREZ, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge. SHEPHERD, J. Defendant, D.A., appeals a juvenile court order adjudicating him guilty of possession of cannabis following a traffic stop predicated on an expired tag displayed on the vehicle he was driving. D.A. argues that the officer who executed the stop was constitutionally obligated to release him immediately upon deciding not to issue him a citation for the expired tag, and that, in any event, it was constitutionally improper to interrogate him about matters unrelated to the reason for the stop...continue to full post

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