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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Interest of C.C.S., Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 98-3468.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
    April 27, 1999.
    
      Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender; P. Douglas Brinkmeyer, Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General; Kristina White, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.
   PER CURIAM.

Reversed. See G.E.G. v. State, 417 So.2d 975, 977 (Fla.1982) (“[W]e hold that when a defendant is charged with possession of a controlled substance, that substance, if available, must be introduced into evidence” where a defendant objects to its nonintroduction.); Harris v. State, 647 So.2d 206, 208 (Fla. 1st DCA 1994) (holding that a defendant’s mere proximity to a small or trace amount of a controlled substance is not sufficient to establish constructive possession by one of several occupants of a car).

MINER, BENTON, and BROWNING, JJ., CONCUR.