Cole v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that officer did not have probable cause to seize crack pipe based on plain feel where officer “did not testify that it was immediately apparent to him that the object in [the defendant’s] pocket was contraband”
• reversing denial of motion to suppress based on \plain feel doctrine\ when officer did not testify that it was immediately apparent to him that the objects he felt were drugs
• reversing denial of suppression and rejecting \plain feel doctrine\ in the absence of testimony \that it was immediately apparent to\ the arresting officer that a suspicious item was in fact contraband (emphasis added)
• “[P]robable cause does not arise anytime an officer feels an object that the officer reasonably suspects to be contraband.”
• seizure of crack pipe from defendant's pants during pat-down search exceeded scope of weapons pat-down where officer never testified that it was immediately apparent to him upon feeling pipe that it was contraband
• seizure of crack pipe from defendant’s pants during pat-down search exceeded scope of the weapons pat-down where officer never testified that it was immediately apparent to him upon feeling the pipe that it was contraband

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Campuzano v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-11-08· cited 16×
• State v. J.D.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-10-10· cited 13×
• Harris v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-08-10· cited 10×
• Rodriguez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-01-30· cited 6×
• Griffin v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-11-20· cited 5×
• Santiago v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-04-11· cited 5×
• Conyers v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-05-06· cited 3×
• State v. JD
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-10-10
• Dorsey v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-06-18
• Goudy v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-04-23
• State v. Toomer
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-01-21
• Williams v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2025-10-01

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Minnesota v. Dickerson
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-07· cited 2,669×
• Doctor v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-03-12· cited 99×
• Walker v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-11-06· cited 39×
• Dunn v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-03-14· cited 22×
• Jordan v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-06-09· cited 22×
• D.S. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-02-10· cited 1×