Reversed in part, affirmed in part, remanded. Posted April 27, 2001. An officer's reasonable suspicion of an open alcoholic beverage container, upon observing a driver drinking out of a brown paper bag, was sufficient both to support a traffic stop and the admission of cocaine that the officer subsequently discovered, the Florida 4th District Court of Appeal held. The driver argued that the officer's observation was not enough to support a stop, and that the cocaine evidence should therefore be suppressed. That would not be the test here.
Reasonable suspicion is a less demanding standard than probable cause.
As the trial court based its holding on the officer's reasonable suspicion, its refusal to suppress the cocaine evidence was affirmed. Posted April 27, 2001. Once the division was established, he was removed as manager, repeatedly demoted with lesser pay, and eventually discharged, the employee said. Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded. Posted April 20, 2001.