Gayle RAULERSON, Appellant,
v.
STATE of Florida, Appellee.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
*537 Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Susan D. Cline, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Aubin Wade Robinson, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.
POLEN, Judge.
Gayle Raulerson appeals from the trial court order denying her motion to suppress contraband found in her residence pursuant to a search warrant. The trial court denied the motion because it found that the affidavit submitted in support of the search warrant provided the requisite probable cause. Our review of the record, however, leads us to conclude that the affidavit did not provide the required probable cause. Accordingly, we reverse.
Following an anonymous complaint that residents at Raulerson's address were involved in drug activity, police went to Raulerson's home, where officers retrieved six bags of trash from the curb in front of the home. After searching through the bags individually, they found two cannabis cigarette butts, stems, seeds, and pieces of suspected cannabis. A field test of the pieces tested positive for cannabis. Based on this discovery, the officers obtained a search warrant. Execution of the warrant produced contraband.
Raulerson, arguing that the affidavit given in support of the warrant lacked probable cause, moved to suppress the evidence. The trial court found the affidavit sufficient and denied suppression.
We find merit in Raulerson's argument. Although the affidavit contained relevant information that the substance found in the one-time trash pull tested positive for cannabis, we believe the affidavit lacked other sufficient material facts to indicate a fair probability that cannabis would be found in Raulerson's home.
The instant case is distinguishable from State v. Jacobs,
Because we find that the information contained in the affidavit in this case does not suggest a pattern of continuous drug activity, we reverse.
REVERSED.
GUNTHER, J., concurs.
SHAHOOD, J., dissents with opinion.
SHAHOOD, Judge, dissenting.
I would affirm the trial court's denial of appellant's motion to suppress. The facts in this case are in harmony with the facts in State v. Mayes,
My review of the record leads me to conclude that the affidavit contained sufficient *538 material facts to indicate a fair probability that cannabis would be found in appellant's home; therefore, sufficient probable cause existed.
