Jamall Scott v. State

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA FIFTH DISTRICT JANUARY TERM 2013 NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED JAMALL VONTAE SCOTT, Appellant, v. Case No. 5D12-844 STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. ________________________________/ Opinion filed April 5, 2013 Appeal from the Circuit Court for Orange County, Emerson R. Thompson, Jr., Senior Judge. James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and Kevin R. Holtz, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Lori N. Hagan, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee. PER CURIAM. AFFIRMED. See Ward v. State, 21 So. 3d 896, 899-900 (Fla. 5th DCA 2009) ( [T]he issue is whether the officers had reasonable suspicion to believe that [the defendant] had committed the offense of trespassing, not whether the defendant had actually committed a crime. A police officer is not required to determine conclusively that a crime has occurred prior to detaining an individual. ) LAWSON, EVANDER, and COHEN, JJ., concur.

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