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Jackson v. State, Case No. 5D09-1380 (Fla. App. 4/30/2010) (Fla. App., 2010)

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JAMES EARL JACKSON, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. Case No. 5D09-1380. District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District. Opinion filed April 30, 2010. Appeal from the Circuit Court for Marion County, Edward L. Scott, Judge. James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and Kathryn Rollison Radtke, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant. Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Pamela J. Koller, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee. TORPY, J. The sole issue framed for our review is whether the trial court erred in concluding that there existed an objectively reasonable basis to stop the vehicle in which Appellant was a passenger. Our disposition of this issue turns on whether police officers had “reasonable suspicion” to believe that the car contained a person who was the subject Page 2 of outstanding arrest warrants, justifying the detention...continue to full post

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