Court Opinion

ID: 4246454
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Date Created: 2018-02-20 18:09:58.809865+00
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FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
                 STATE OF FLORIDA
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                         No. 1D16-4167
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RAYMOND LAMONT CUMMINGS,

    Appellant,

    v.

STATE OF FLORIDA,

    Appellee.
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On appeal from the Circuit Court for Escambia County.
J. Scott Duncan, Judge.

                        February 20, 2018

PER CURIAM.

     Appellant pleaded no contest to several drug charges and
resisting an officer. He had been a passenger in a car stopped by
police, and he gave a false name, disobeyed instructions to stay in
the car, and ran off. Officers apprehended him and found drugs.

     In pleading no contest, Appellant reserved his right to appeal
the trial court’s order denying his motion to suppress. His sole
argument on appeal is that officers had no basis to detain him
when they stopped the vehicle in which he was riding. But as he
acknowledges in his reply brief, the recent Florida Supreme Court
decision in Presley v. State forecloses this argument. 227 So. 3d 95
(Fla. 2017), cert. denied, No. 17-7139, 583 U.S. __ (Feb. 20, 2018).

    AFFIRMED.
JAY, WINSOR, and M.K. THOMAS, JJ., concur.

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    Not final until disposition of any timely and
    authorized motion under Fla. R. App. P. 9.330 or
    9.331.
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Andy Thomas, Public Defender, and Brenda L. Roman, Assistant
Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant.

Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, and Samuel B. Steinberg,
Assistant Attorney General, for Appellee.

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