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State v. Rivera

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District
May 27, 1981
400 So. 2d 22 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1981)

Opinion

No. 78-2757.

April 15, 1981. Rehearing Denied May 27, 1981.

Appeal from the Circuit Court, Broward County, Robert A. Butterworth, J.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Russell S. Bohn, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Lawrence E. Besser, Edward R. Shohat and Benedict P. Kuehne of Bierman, Sonnett, Beiley Shohat, P.A., Miami, for appellees.


This is a state appeal from an order suppressing marijuana seized from a marine vessel and from a dwelling. It is a companion case to Rizzo v. State ex rel. City of Pompano Beach, 396 So.2d 869 (Fla. 4th DCA 1981), opinion on rehearing filed this date, since it arose out of the same April 7, 1978, marijuana seizures involved in Rizzo.

The hearing on the appellees' motion to suppress took place before a circuit judge other than the judge involved in Rizzo; it occurred some months after the Rizzo hearing; and it had different results.

In the present case the circuit court granted appellees' motion to suppress on the basis that the police officers had no probable cause to arrest and, therefore, needed search warrants to enter the dwelling and to board the vessel. We reverse the order of suppression for failure of any of appellees to show standing, i.e., a reasonable expectation of privacy, as to the dwelling or the vessel ( See State v. Muzevsky, 388 So.2d 21 [Fla. 4th DCA 1980]) and remand the cause for further proceedings.

REVERSED AND REMANDED.

ANSTEAD and HERSEY, JJ., concur.


ON PETITION FOR REHEARING


The remand of this case for further proceedings did not include further consideration of the question of standing; that question was considered and determined adversely to appellees in our opinion of April 15, 1981.

Accordingly, the Petition for Rehearing is denied.

DOWNEY, ANSTEAD and HERSEY, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

State v. Rivera

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District
May 27, 1981
400 So. 2d 22 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1981)
Case details for

State v. Rivera

Case Details

Full title:STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLANT, v. MARIA RIVERA, NELSON GARCIA, RENE FERRER…

Court:District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District

Date published: May 27, 1981

Citations

400 So. 2d 22 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1981)

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