Case ID: so2d_541/html/0797-03.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Juan RODRIGUEZ, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 87-1078.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    April 25, 1989.
    Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and N. Joseph Durant, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.
    
      Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Ralph Barreira, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appel-lee.
    Before HUBBART, FERGUSON and LEVY.
   PER CURIAM.

The defendant appeals his convictions, for Trafficking in Cocaine and Conspiracy to Traffic in Cocaine, claiming that the State failed to establish a sufficient chain of custody for the cocaine to be admitted in evidence against him. The State of Florida agrees that Dodd v. State, 537 So.2d 626 (Fla. 3rd DCA 1988), is controlling, and requires reversal of appellant’s convictions.

Accordingly, the convictions and sentences under review are reversed, and the cause is remanded for a new trial.

Reversed and remanded. 
      
      . This case involved the appellant’s co-defendant.