BRIAN PACKARD, APPELLANT,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Sheridan v. State, 850 So. 2d 638 (Fla. 2d DCA 2003)
  …alified to offer an opinion as to the exact weight of the drug by visual inspection. Recently, the distinction between powdered cocaine and crack cocaine in the context of determining the weight for trafficking purposes was noted in Lyons v. State, 807 So. 2d 709, 710 (Fla. 5th DCA 2002). There, the court noted that the rule against commingling did not apply to crack cocaine but did apply to the powdered cocaine yet allowed evidence of weight despite a commingling contention because of the unique packaging o…
• Baron Greenwade v. State, 124 So. 3d 215 (Fla. 2013)
  …ages. Id. (emphasis supplied). Finally, in Lyons v. State, the defendant was convicted of trafficking in cocaine in an amount greater than 400 grams after two bricks of powdered cocaine were discovered in the defendant’s car during a traffic stop. 807 So. 2d 709, 710 (Fla. 5th DCA 2002). The two bricks were found hidden in the backseat of the car inside a cereal box that was packed inside a grocery bag. Id. Testimony during trial revealed that the two bricks were “approximately the same size and were otherw…
• Baron Greenwade v. State, 80 So. 3d 371 (Fla. 1st DCA 2012)
  …re bundled together (Ross) or an admission by the defendant (Sheridan), would permit a jury to reasonably infer all the packets contain an illegal substance. [*374] The rationale underlying the so-called rule against commingling, see Lyons v. State, 807 So. 2d 709, 710 (Fla. 5th DCA 2002), is that where several individual packets contain suspected cocaine (or some other contraband in powder form), one or more of the packets might contain some “other chemical compound[ ] which [has] a similar white powdery app…

Authorities Cited

• Gethers v. State, 798 So. 2d 829 (Fla. 4th DCA 2001)