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Brooks v. State

Citations

  • 524 So. 2d 1102
  • 1988 WL 44471

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  • evidence found in search of vehicle incident to arrest for failure to produce a valid driver’s license suppressed when initial stop was pretextual
  • search was pretextual where officer had motive not based on founded suspicion of criminal activity and detention was for traffic infraction for which an arrest would not otherwise have been made
  • unlawful pretext stop for improper start of motor vehicle

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Judges: Schwartz, C.J., and Hendry and Ferguson

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