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PILLOW v STATE OF FLORIDA
    Case No. 90-7-AM (Lower Court Case Nos. 90-10644TT-42-L and 90-1161-MM-42-L)
    Fifth Judicial Circuit, Lake County
    April 1, 1991
    APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
    Michelle T. Morley, Esquire, for appellant.
    James F. Feuerstein, Assistant State Attorney, for appellee.
    Before McNEAL, BOOTH, SINGELTARY, JJ.
   OPINION OF THE COURT

PER CURIAM.

The officer stopped Teresa L. Pillow for having a cracked tail light lens, discovered her driver’s license was suspended, and searched her vehicle, finding drug paraphernalia. This situation presents a Kehoe question. Was the warrantless stop of the vehicle one which a reasonable officer would have made absent the additional invalid purpose? See Kehoe v State, 521 So.2d 1094, 1097 (Fla. 1988). The officer testified that he “typically responded in the same manner” to defective equipment similar to a tail light. There is nothing in the record that refutes the officer’s statement. See State v Gibson, 560 So.2d 1370 (Fla. 5th DCA 1990) (“normal practice” to stop cars with loud mufflers).

AFFIRMED. McNEAL, R., BOOTH, J., SINGELTARY, G., concur.