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Title: Indian River Farms v. Ybf Partners
Author : Florida Court of Appeal
Release Date : January 24, 2001
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 61 KB

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The Miami-Dade Police Department, the petitioner in a proceeding for the forfeiture of $101,100.00 which allegedly belonged to the appellee William Martinez, appeals from an order suppressing the money on Fourth Amendment grounds. Specifically, although it is undisputed that the cash was found during a search to which the owner and occupant of the premises, Mrs. Victoria Cepeda, Martinezs mother, voluntarily consented, the trial court held that (a) the searching officers alleged misrepresentation that the object of their proposed search was only for weapons, rather than for money and drugs, invalidated the consent and (b) the actions of the officers who--in the presence of and without objection from Mrs. Cepeda-- opened a duct taped cereal box which contained the money and which was itself found within an open lock box inside a safe, exceeded the scope of even a valid consent thus requiring suppression. We reverse upon the holdings that both of these determinations are contrary to the law.