Berry v. State, 4-86-0163
| Decision Date | 10 September 1986 |
| Docket Number | No. 4-86-0163,4-86-0163 |
| Citation | 11 Fla. L. Weekly 1937,493 So.2d 1098 |
| Parties | 11 Fla. L. Weekly 1937 Raymond BERRY, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee. |
| Court | Florida District Court of Appeals |
Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Ellen Morris, Asst. Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Robert S. Jaegers, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee.
Appellant, Raymond Berry, appeals an order denying his motion to suppress and imposing court costs against him. After reviewing the record, we reverse.
On September 28, 1985, at 6:00 P.M., Officer Bryant, while on routine patrol, observed a couple purchase food at the Church's Chicken Restaurant in Ft. Lauderdale. After their purchase, the couple entered their car and circled around the restaurant's parking lot. At that time, Officer Bryant also observed appellant and another man crouched down behind the rear of the restaurant. The two men ran up to the couple's car. The couple appeared to be startled and then drove off. Officer Bryant then saw appellant put his hand into his pocket, and walk around to the rear of the restaurant. The other man with appellant walked into the restaurant.
Based on these observations and his experience, Officer Bryant believed that the two men had attempted to sell the couple some type of narcotics. Officer Bryant pursued the man who entered the restaurant, and radioed for assistance to detain appellant.
Over the radio, he requested that a black man, whom he had seen crouched behind a building, be stopped. He described the man, but did not specify why he was to be stopped. Officer Temple saw appellant walking down the street. Based on the radioed information only, Officer Temple stopped appellant, and immediately conducted a weapons pat-down.
Officer Temple felt a lump in appellant's pocket, but did not think it was a weapon. He advised Officer Bryant over the radio that he had stopped appellant, and Officer Bryant told him to place appellant under arrest. Officer Temple assumed the arrest was for loitering or prowling. After the arrest, Officer Temple found eleven bags of cocaine on appellant.
Appellant asserted that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress because neither Officer Bryant nor Officer Temple had a reasonable founded suspicion to justify stopping and temporarily detaining him. Although we agree with appellant that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress, we base our decision on grounds other than that asserted by appellant.
Officer Bryant had a reasonable founded suspicion to stop and temporarily detain appellant based on his observations and experience. See ...
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