Case Name: Kenneth A. BICKING, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1974-04-30
Citations: 293 So. 2d 385
Docket Number: No. T-261
Parties: Kenneth A. BICKING, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: SPECTOR, Acting C. J., and McCORD, J., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 293
Pages: 385–388

Head Matter:
Kenneth A. BICKING, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. T-261.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
April 30, 1974.
Louis O. Frost, Jr., Public Defender, and James O. Brecher, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.
Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., and Donald K. Rudser, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appel-lee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
This is an appeal from an order denying defendant-appellant's motion to suppress the evidence in a marijuana possession case. Following entry of the order denying his motion, appellant entered a plea of nolo contendere to the felony charged against him.
For reversal, appellant relies on the rule enunciated in Mann v. State, 292 So.2d 432, opinion filed January 16, 1974, by the Second District Court of Appeal of Florida, wherein the court held that when an accused moves to suppress evidence obtained through a warrantless search, the State has the burden of proof as to the validity of a warrantless search. In the case at bar, the trial court placed that burden on the defendant.
The cases relied upon by appellant, of which Mann v. State, supra, is only an example, appear to control. When a defendant has shown a warrantless
search, he has presented a prima facie case of unreasonableness and has met the burden imposed upon him by Rule 3.-190(h)(3), Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure, 33 F.S.A. The burden then shifts to the State to prove a legal search. In addition to the authorities cited in Mann v. State, supra, see also Coolidge v. New Hampshire, 403 U.S. 443, 91 S.Ct. 2022, 29 L.Ed.2d 564.
Accordingly, we reverse and remand for a new hearing on appellant's motion to suppress, in which hearing the State must bear the burden of proof as to the validity of the search involved.
SPECTOR, Acting C. J., and McCORD, J., concur.
BOYER, J., concurs specially.