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Phillips v. State

Citations

  • 781 So. 2d 477
  • 2001 WL 246080

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  • holding that man in torn clothes with grass stains walking on street near burglarized home insufficient to justify investigatory stop
  • confirming that to justify an investigatory stop, a police officer must have a well-founded, artic- ulable suspicion that a person has committed, is committing or is about to commit a crime
  • reversing denial of suppression motion where police observed defendant legally walking on street
  • reversing denial of suppression motion where police observed defendant legally walking on street
  • “If a police officer does not have the necessary founded suspicion to support the investigatory stop, the evidence obtained during the invalid search must be suppressed.”
  • “Because the police officers did not notice that the defendant’s clothing were torn and stained until after the police officers stopped the defendant, the State may not rely on these facts to justify the investigatory stop.”

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Judges: Schwartz, C.J., and Goderich and Fletcher

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