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228 So. 2d 613

Smith v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided December 5, 1969

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 1969-12-05

Relies on Chimel v. California · Hunter v. Solomon · 222 So. 2d 45 - Smith v. State

Decided 1969-12-05

MANN, Judge.

¶1While Smith was held in the Leesburg jail on a traffic charge, officers searched the trunk of his car without a warrant. Evidence found there was used in this prosecution for breaking and entering. A timely motion to suppress was filed, and it should have been granted. In fairness to the able trial judge it must be said that Smith’s trial counsel, not named either here or in our former opinion at 222 So.2d 45, did not bring to the attention of the court Courington v. State, Fla. 1954, 74 So. 2d 652, which compels reversal for a new trial. See also Chimel v. California (1969), 395 U.S. 752, 89 S.Ct. 2034, 23 L.Ed.2d 685.

¶2Reversed and remanded.

LILES, Acting C. J., and PIERCE, J., concur.
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