State v. Tamer
Decision Date | 30 July 1985 |
Docket Number | No. 84-2551,84-2551 |
Citation | 10 Fla. L. Weekly 1841,475 So.2d 918 |
Parties | 10 Fla. L. Weekly 1841 The STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Theodore S. TAMER, Appellee. |
Court | Florida District Court of Appeals |
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Henry R. Barksdale, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellant.
Fine, Jacobson, Schwartz, Nash, Block & England and Mitchell Bloomberg, Miami, for appellee.
Before HUBBART, NESBITT and BASKIN, JJ.
The order under review which suppresses certain clothing of the defendant Theodore S. Tamer is affirmed based on the following briefly stated legal analysis.
First, our prior decision in State v. Tamer, 449 So.2d 890 (Fla. 3d DCA), pet. for review denied, 455 So.2d 1033 (Fla.1984) [Tamer I], did not, as the state urges, establish as law of the case that the seizure of the defendant's clothing was reasonable within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment regardless of whether the search warrant employed to obtain the clothing was constitutionally invalid. The issue of the validity of the subject search warrant was never raised and was not before us in the prior appeal; accordingly, we passed no judgment thereon. We ruled only that the trial court was in error in granting a motion to suppress the clothing herein on the basis that the police stop of the defendant was unlawful--thereby tainting any and all evidence secured thereafter; we concluded that the police stop was valid and that accordingly the evidence obtained subsequently was not tainted thereby. In Tamer I, we made no ruling that the "untainted" search warrant stated probable cause for the seizure of the clothing or that the seizure of the clothing was valid under a "search incident" exception irrespective of the validity of the search warrant, as neither of these issues was urged or involved in that appeal.
On remand, the trial court heard an entirely separate motion to suppress the subject clothing on the basis that the "untainted" search warrant utilized to seize the clothing herein (a) stated no probable cause for the seizure of same, and (b) contained facts which were false. The trial court had expressly reserved ruling on this motion at the time it granted the first motion to suppress from which the prior appeal was taken. Indeed, the state expressly conceded this entire issue when it told the trial court--quite correctly we think--in a pleading on remand following our reversal in Tamer I:
We reject the state's belated effort to change its position on appeal as having no merit. See Ladner v. Plaza Del Prado Condominium Association, 423 So.2d 927, 929 (Fla. 3d DCA 1982), pet. for review denied, 434 So.2d 887 (Fla.1983); Boulevard National Bank of Miami v. Gulf American Land Corp., 212 So.2d 17, 21 (Fla. 3d DCA), cert. denied, 219 So.2d 706 (Fla.1968); Rubin v. Shapiro, 198 So.2d 854, 855 (Fla. 3d DCA), cert. denied, 204 So.2d 331 (Fla.1967).
Second, although the affidavit in support of the subject search warrant states ample probable cause to link the defendant to a prior arson, Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S. 213, 103 S.Ct. 2317, 76 L.Ed.2d 527 (1983), there are no facts stated therein which indicate that the subject clothing constituted some evidence relevant to proving the aforesaid arson. Indeed, the affidavit makes no mention whatever of the subject clothing. This being so, no probable cause was stated in the affidavit for the seizure of this clothing, the search and seizure of the clothing was unreasonable, and the clothing was properly suppressed as being inadmissible in evidence. See United States v. Thompson, ...
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