Case ID: so2d_447/html/0346-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

David GOUDY, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 82-959.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    Feb. 29, 1984.
    Rehearing Denied March 28, 1984.
    Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Allen J. DeWeese, Asst. Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
    Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Joy B. Shearer, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee.
   PER CURIAM

AFFIRMED.

ANSTEAD, C.J., and WESSEL, JOHN D., Associate Judge, concur.

HURLEY, J., dissents with opinion.

HURLEY, Judge,

dissenting:

The trial court ruled that a warrantless search of the defendant’s hotel room was illegal. Consequently, the court suppressed some — but not all — of the evidence found in the hotel room. In my view, the trial court erred when it ruled that the defendant lacked standing to contest the seizure of money found under a mattress in the hotel room. Furthermore, I cannot agree with my colleagues’ assessment that the subsequent admission of this money into evidence was harmless error. See Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18, 87 S.Ct. 824, 17 L.Ed.2d 705 (1967). Therefore, I respectfully dissent.