Criminal

The Florida Supreme Court has cleared up a murky area for defense attorneys concerning the limits of the fellow officer rule in motions to suppress.  The Court held the fellow officer rule does not allow an officer who does not have firsthand knowledge of the traffic stop and was not involved in the investigation at that time to testify as to hearsay regarding what the initial officer who conducted the stop told him or her for the purpose of proving a violation of the traffic law so as to e... Read More