State v. McDonald

Full title: STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellant, v. ROBERT F. MCDONALD, Appellee

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District

Date published: Jul 9, 1999

736 So. 2d 155 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1999)

Opinion

No. 98-2220.

Opinion filed July 9, 1999.

An appeal from the Circuit Court for Duval County, L. Haldane Taylor, Judge.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General; Edward C. Hill, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellant.

Wayne F. Henderson, St. Augustine, for Appellee.

PER CURIAM.

Reversed. See State v. Peterson, 24 Fla. L. Weekly S288 (Fla. June 17, 1999) (overruling Peterson v. State, 706 So.2d 936 (Fla. 1st DCA 1998), and, by implication, McNeely v. State, 690 So.2d 1337 (Fla. 1st DCA 1997), Smith v. State, 637 So.2d 351 (Fla. 1st DCA 1994), and St. Angelo v. State, 532 So.2d 1346 (Fla. 1st DCA 1988), insofar as these decisions require an affiant's personal knowledge of a confidential informant's reliability).

ALLEN, LAWRENCE, and BENTON, JJ., CONCUR.