{"id":381,"date":"2018-05-29T12:05:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T16:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clearwatercriminallawyer.net\/?p=381"},"modified":"2026-01-31T09:27:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T14:27:42","slug":"florida-court-throws-out-gun-recovered-in-stop-and-frisk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criminalattorneyclearwater.net\/blog\/florida-court-throws-out-gun-recovered-in-stop-and-frisk\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Court Throws Out Gun Recovered in Stop and Frisk"},"content":{"rendered":"

The U.S. Constitution and Florida law protect people from unlawful searches and seizures by police officers. That includes stops and frisks on the street. Cops must have a reasonable suspicion to believe that criminal activity is afoot to stop someone in the first place and then have a separate reasonable suspicion to believe that you are armed and dangerous to frisk you for weapons, as Florida\u2019s Fifth District Court of Appeal recently explained<\/a>\u00a0in a Florida gun crime case.A defendant was on probation when he was arrested and charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. He was also hit with a new charge for violating the terms of his probation. The charges stemmed from an incident in which a worker at a restaurant called local police to tell them that a customer appeared to have a gun in his waistband. The employee said she never actually saw the gun and told the cops she wasn\u2019t sure what the object in the waistband was. She pointed out the defendant as the customer in question when police arrived on the scene.<\/p>\n

An officer who approached the defendant later told a judge that he saw a \u201cbulge\u201d in his waistband that appeared to be a gun. The officer didn\u2019t know that he was a convicted felon at the time and didn\u2019t ask whether he had a permit for a weapon. The officer instead proceeded to pat the defendant down. He found a gun on him in the process. A trial judge rejected the defendant’s request that the evidence be excluded from the case against him, arguing that the officer didn\u2019t have a reasonable suspicion to frisk him at the time the weapon was recovered. The trial judge denied that request, but the Fifth District sided with the defendant on appeal.<\/p>\n

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The U.S. Constitution and Florida law protect people from unlawful searches and seizures by police officers. That includes stops and frisks on the street. Cops must have a reasonable suspicion to believe that criminal activity is afoot to stop someone in the first place and then have a separate reasonable suspicion to believe that you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-crimes"],"yoast_head":"\nPlea Deal: Stop and Frisk Limits<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When police search your car, a gun charge case can hinge on throws out gun recovered. See how this ruling your defense. 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