Case Name: STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Mitchel CONDE, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2006-03-08
Citations: 924 So. 2d 897
Docket Number: No. 4D05-2245
Parties: STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Mitchel CONDE, Appellee.
Judges: WARNER and HAZOURI, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 924
Pages: 897–897

Head Matter:
STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Mitchel CONDE, Appellee.
No. 4D05-2245.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
March 8, 2006.
Rehearing Denied April 19, 2006.
Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Melanie Dale Surber, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
Phillip Menditto of Fred Haddad, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.

Opinion:
KLEIN, J.
This is an appeal from an' order suppressing cocaine which the defendant dropped while running from the police. Although the police did not have reasonable suspicion to stop the defendant, there is no evidence to support the only basis for suppression, that the illegal stop occurred before the drop. Because the stop did not occur until the police caught up with defendant, after he dropped the cocaine, the seizure of the cocaine was lawful. California v. Hodari D., 499 U.S. 621, 111 S.Ct. 1547, 113 L.Ed.2d 690 (1991); Johnson v. State, 640 So.2d 136 (Fla. 4th DCA 1994).
Reversed.
WARNER and HAZOURI, JJ., concur.