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Rector v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District
Oct 28, 1988
532 So. 2d 16 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1988)

Opinion

No. 87-833.

August 30, 1988. Rehearing Denied October 28, 1988.

An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Dade County; Gerald Kogan and Arthur Maginnis, Judges.

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Friend Fleck and Geoffrey C. Fleck, Sp. Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen. and Ivy R. Ginsberg, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and HUBBART, J., and JOE A. COWART, Jr., Associate Judge.


We reject the defendant's challenges to the statements and confessions admitted against him, finding that he was not initially under arrest or invalidly taken into custody, see Roman v. State, 475 So.2d 1228 (Fla. 1985), cert. denied, 475 U.S. 1090, 106 S.Ct. 1480, 89 L.Ed.2d 734 (1986); State v. Dodd, 396 So.2d 1205 (Fla. 3d DCA 1981), and cases cited at 1207, approved, 419 So.2d 333 (Fla. 1982); compare Dunaway v. New York, 442 U.S. 200, 99 S.Ct. 2248, 60 L.Ed.2d 824 (1979); Brown v. Illinois, 422 U.S. 590, 95 S.Ct. 2254, 45 L.Ed.2d 416 (1975), and that, when they became required, Miranda warnings were correctly administered. See Kennedy v. State, 455 So.2d 351 (Fla. 1984), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 1197, 105 S.Ct. 981, 83 L.Ed.2d 983 (1985); Waterhouse v. State, 429 So.2d 301 (Fla. 1983), cert. denied, 464 U.S. 977, 104 S.Ct. 415, 78 L.Ed.2d 352 (1983).

Affirmed.


Summaries of

Rector v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District
Oct 28, 1988
532 So. 2d 16 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1988)
Case details for

Rector v. State

Case Details

Full title:MICHAEL RECTOR, APPELLANT, v. THE STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Court:District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District

Date published: Oct 28, 1988

Citations

532 So. 2d 16 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1988)

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