Case Name: Joseph SERPA, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1989-11-30
Citations: 555 So. 2d 1210
Docket Number: No. 74145
Parties: Joseph SERPA, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
Judges: EHRLICH, C.J., and SHAW and KOGAN, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 555
Pages: 1210–1210

Head Matter:
Joseph SERPA, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
No. 74145.
Supreme Court of Florida.
Nov. 30, 1989.
Rehearing Denied Feb. 20, 1990.
Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Cherry Grant, Asst. Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for petitioner.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Patricia G. Lampert, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for respondent.

Opinion:
BARKETT, Justice.
We have for review Serpa v. State, 541 So.2d 799, 799 (Fla. 4th DCA 1989), 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.
OVERTON, McDonald and GRIMES, JJ., dissent.