HH v. State, 4D00-1077.
Decision Date | 20 December 2000 |
Docket Number | No. 4D00-1077.,4D00-1077. |
Citation | 775 So.2d 397 |
Parties | H.H., a child, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee. |
Court | Florida District Court of Appeals |
Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Karen E. Ehrlich, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and David M. Schultz, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.
We reverse appellant's adjudication for resisting an officer without violence because the initial stop of appellant was not lawful.
The elements of resisting an officer without violence require that (1) the officer be engaged in the lawful execution of a legal duty and (2) the defendant's action constitute obstruction or resistance of that lawful duty. See Fripp v. State, 766 So.2d 252 (Fla. 4th DCA 2000)
; § 843.02, Fla.Stat. (1999). An individual may be guilty of unlawfully obstructing an officer if he flees while knowing the officer's intent to detain him and the officer is justified in making a stop pursuant to the Stop and Frisk statute. See M.C. v. State, 450 So.2d 336 (Fla. 5th DCA 1984); see also Harris v. State, 647 So.2d 206, 208 (Fla. 1st DCA 1994)(the crime of resisting an officer without violence cannot take place if either the officer "lacked an articulable well founded suspicion of criminal activity to justify the attempt to detain [the appellant] or if [the appellant] had no reason to believe that he was being detained.")
In this case, there was an adjudicatory hearing, after which the trial court made the following findings:
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