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Mitchell v. State

Citations

  • 558 So. 2d 72
  • 1990 WL 12750

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  • concluding that consent given after an illegal detention was involuntary and not valid because it was the result of acquiescence to police authority, absent an unequivocal break in the chain of illegality
  • “A vague anonymous tip devoid of any corroborating circumstances cannot justify the appellant’s detention.”
  • anonymous tip that three or four black men were selling cocaine in an alley, with no further description of the men and with no corroboration except that appellant was a black male and in the alley, held insufficient to justify stop

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Judges: Schoonover

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