Case Name: STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Tyrone JENNINGS, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2016-04-06
Citations: 189 So. 3d 1001
Docket Number: No. 4D15-993
Parties: STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Tyrone JENNINGS, Appellee.
Judges: CIKLIN, C.J., and GROSS, J., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 189
Pages: 1001–1003

Head Matter:
STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Tyrone JENNINGS, Appellee.
No. 4D15-993.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
April 6, 2016.
Rehearing Denied May 17, 2016.
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee and Melanie Dale Surber, Assist tant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
Carey Haughwout, Public Defender and Karen E. Ehrlich, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The State appeals an order granting defendant/appellee's motion to suppress in á criminal case. In his motion, appellee contended that he had been stopped with no well-founded suspicion of criminal activity. There was a hearing on the motion at which four police officers testified. The trial judge granted the motion "after carefully considering and weighing the testimony and credibility of all of the respective witnesses." On this appeal, although we review legal conclusions de novo, we "defer to the trial court's factual findings and interpret the evidence,- reasonable inferences, and deductions derived from the evidence in a manner most favorable to sustaining the trial court's ruling." Poliar v. State, 898 So.2d 1013, 1014 (Fla. 4th DCA 2005). Deferring to the trial judge's evaluation of credibility, we affirm the order granting the motion to suppress.
CIKLIN, C.J., and GROSS, J., concur.
FORST, J., dissents with opinion.