Case Name: Adrian AVERY, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1989-11-30
Citations: 555 So. 2d 351
Docket Number: No. 73289
Parties: Adrian AVERY, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
Judges: EHRLICH, C.J., and SHAW and KOGAN, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 555
Pages: 351–352

Head Matter:
Adrian AVERY, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
No. 73289.
Supreme Court of Florida.
Nov. 30, 1989.
Rehearing Denied Feb. 2, 1990.
Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Jeffrey L. Anderson, Asst. Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for petitioner.
Richard A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Richard G. Bartmon and Amy Lynn Diem, Asst. Attys. Gen., West Palm Beach, for respondent.

Opinion:
BARKETT, Justice.
We have for review State v. Avery, 531 So.2d 182, 188 (Fla. 4th DCA 1988), in which the district court certified the following question to be of great public importance:
May evidence, obtained as a result of defendant's consent to search, be suppressed by the trial court as "coerced" upon the sole ground that the officer(s) boarded a bus (or other public transport) and randomly sought consent from passengers?
We have discretionary jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla.Const. For the reasons expressed in Bostick v. State, 554 So.2d 1153 (Fla.1989), we answer the certified question, as rephrased therein, in the affirmative, quash the opinion of the district court, and remand to the district court for proceedings consistent with Bostick.
It is so ordered.
EHRLICH, C.J., and SHAW and KOGAN, JJ., concur.
GRIMES, J., dissents with an opinion, in which OVERTON and McDONALD, JJ., concur.