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Benson v. State

Citations

  • 698 So. 2d 333
  • 1997 WL 459857

How courts have described this case

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  • applying Quarles exception when defendant’s own safety was at issue and explaining that “reasoning behind . . . the Quarles exception ... is that a narrow exception should arise when the primary objective of the questioning is to save human life”
  • after having observed the defendant dumping something in his mouth at the time of the drug bust, one officer asked him how many cocaine rocks he had swallowed
  • emergency situation created when defendant admitted to officers that he swallowed crack cocaine

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Judges: Pariente

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