EAST COAST SUPPLY CORP., ETC., PETITIONER,

v.

A. P. I. OF FLORIDA, INC., ETC., ET AL., RESPONDENTS

Citator

Cited By

• State v. Irvin, 483 So. 2d 461 (Fla. 5th DCA 1986)
  …it was stopped for going 70 miles per hour in a 50-mile-per-hour zone.2-3 See also Mahla v. State, 383 So. 2d 730 (Fla. 1st [*463] DCA), review denied, 389 So. 2d 1112 (Fla.1980); TJrquhart v. State, 261 So. 2d 535 (Fla. 2d DCA 1971), cert. denied, 266 So. 2d 349 (Fla.1972). The law rarely, if ever, ascribes consequences .to bad thoughts alone. In this situation, the officers’ putatively unlawful intentions, like the proverbial tree falling in the unoccupied forest, had no cognizable effect. Regardless of w…
• State v. Kehoe, 498 So. 2d 560 (Fla. 4th DCA 1986)
  …hough officer had reason to believe defendant did not have a license), cert. denied, 353 So. 2d 679 (Fla.1977); Urquhart v. State, 261 So. 2d 535 (Fla.2d DCA 1971) (exceeding speed limit by 15 m.p.h. is sufficiently serious violation), cert. denied, 266 So. 2d 349 (Fla.1972). This court followed the Holmes rule in State v. Turner, 345 So. 2d 767 (Fla.4th DCA 1977), in upholding a stop of the defendant’s car for defective taillights and to check his driver’s license, notwithstanding that the officers’ subjecti…
• Knight v. State, 398 So. 2d 908 (Fla. 1st DCA 1981)
  …] searches are authorized if they meet federal and state constitutional requirements of reasonableness.1 South Dakota v. Opperman, 428 U.S. 364, 96 S.Ct. 3092, 49 L.Ed.2d 1000 (1976); Urquhart v. State, 261 So. 2d 535 (Fla. 2d DCA 1971), cert. den., 266 So. 2d 349 (Fla.1972); Godbee v. State, 224 So. 2d 441 (Fla. 2d DCA 1969). Generally speaking, an inventory search is justified as a reasonable consequence of impoundment when under routine police procedure it is essential when impounding a car to inventory i…

Authorities Cited

• Guellermo M. Aleman v. Aleman, 267 So. 2d 704 (Fla. 4th DCA 1972)
• Benitez v. State, 267 So. 2d 704 (Fla. 4th DCA 1972)