EDWARD COOPER, APPELLANT,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Smith v. State, 95 So. 3d 966 (Fla. 1st DCA 2012)
  …t that point. Had the deputy simply inquired about the pills, which were in plain view, without taking them from the truck, we could conclude that the interaction between Appellant and the deputy remained a consensual encounter. Cf. Keller v. State, 946 So. 2d 1233, 1234 (Fla. 4th DCA 2007). (finding encounter between deputy and appellant consensual where deputy on patrol saw appellant sitting on a ledge outside convenience store, approached appellant and asked for identification, saw prescription bottle beari…
• Melva GAY v. State, 138 So. 3d 1106 (Fla. 2d DCA 2014)
  …his return to Gay with the knowledge that at least some of the pills in the box were controlled substances that the officer inquired of Gay as to whether she knew what the pills were and whether she had a prescription for them. Cf. Keller v. State, 946 So. 2d 1233, 1234 (Fla. 4th DCA 2007) (affirming a trafficking conviction and concluding that the officer had probable cause to believe, at the time the pills were seized, that the pills were hydrocodone and that they did not belong to the defendant based upon…
• State v. Vinci, 146 So. 3d 1255 (Fla. 2d DCA 2014)
  …pill bottle and seize its contents. The trial court recognized that to seize evidence in plain view the incriminating nature of the evidence must be immediately apparent. See State v. Walker, 729 So. 2d 463, 464 (Fla. 2d DCA 1999); Keller v. State, 946 So. 2d 1233, 1234 (Fla. 4th DCA 2007). As this court has stated, “Such a determination merely requires that the facts available to the officer would lead a reasonable man of caution to believe that certain items may be contraband.” Walker, 729 So. 2d at 464. B…

Authorities Cited

• Colson v. State, 717 So. 2d 554 (Fla. 4th DCA 1998)