THOMAS JOHN ELLSWORTH
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA

Fla. 1st DCA | 2019-01-07
No. 18-0187
Crawford Martin
Florida District Court of Appeal, First District (2019)

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Holding

Law enforcement officers may detain a vehicle's passengers for the reasonable duration of a traffic stop without violating the Fourth Amendment.


Headnotes

[1] Law enforcement officers may detain a vehicle's passengers for the reasonable duration of a traffic stop without violating the Fourth Amendment.

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Key Quotes

“law enforcement officers may detain a vehicle's passengers for the reasonable duration of a traffic stop without violating the Fourth Amendment”

Citation to Presley v. State, 227 So. 3d 95, 107-08 (Fla. 2017)

Facts & Procedural History

Thomas John Ellsworth appealed from a circuit court decision in Escambia County involving a traffic stop in which his detention as a passenger was at …

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Opinion of the Court

January 7, 2019 PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED. See Presley v. State, 227 So. 3d 95, 107-08 (Fla. 2017) (holding that “law enforcement officers may detain a vehicle’s passengers for the reasonable duration of a traffic stop without violating the Fourth Amendment”).

ROWE, BILBREY, and WINSOR, JJ., concur. _____________________________ Not final until disposition of any timely and authorized motion under Fla. R. App. P. 9.330 or 9.331.

_____________________________ Andy Thomas, Public Defender, Laurel Cornell Niles and Lori A. Willner, Assistant Public Defenders, Tallahassee, for Appellant. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tabitha Herrera and Kaitlin Weiss, Assistant Attorneys General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.


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