Sandy Bulla v. State of Florida

How courts have described this case

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• finding the defendant's arrest a pretext because of the officers' failure to follow \ordinary procedure\ and the timing of the arrest
• appellate court reviewed trial judge's ruling on objection to evidence, made at trial, although no pretrial motion to suppress had been made
• appellate court reviewed trial judge’s ruling on objection to evidence, made at trial, although no pretrial motion to suppress had been made
• “[T]he search must be incident to the arrest, and not vice versa.”
• police acknowledged purpose of arrest was to search defendant suspected of carrying narcotics
• where police officers use misdemeanor warrant as a pretext to arrest a defendant for a felony narcotics offense and to search the defendant for narcotics, both the arrest and the ensuing search are illegal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).