07-1191 STATE OF FLORIDA v. MAIAOSHAAD DEAUNDRE DORSEY

State: Florida

Court: Florida First District Court

Docket No: 07-1191

Case Date: 09/15/2008

Preview:IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL FIRST DISTRICT, STATE OF FLORIDA STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellant, v. CASE NO. 1D07-1191 MAIAOSHAAD DEAUNDRE DORSEY, Appellee. _________________________________/ NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED

Opinion filed September 15, 2008. An appeal from the Circuit Court for Alachua County. Martha Ann Lott, Judge.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, and Meredith Charbula, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellant. Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and Glen P. Gifford, Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

KAHN, J. The trial court granted appellee Dorsey's motion to suppress certain evidence, but declined to make specific findings of fact, particularly concerning the credibility of the testimony of several police officers. The record reveals a conflict in the testimony of the officers concerning whether an odor of marijuana was detectible on

either Dorsey's person or in the car in which Dorsey was a passenger. "A reviewing court is bound by the trial court's findings of fact

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