Soliciting a Prostitute – Charges Dropped

Our client was driving on the north side of Fort Pierce, what the police like to call a “high crime are."  Some police officers believe that they can do whatever they want to people as long as it’s in a high crime area. Here, the officer pulled my client over because he picked up, what the officer believed to be, a “woman of the night."  The problem for the officer is that we go over every detail of every arrest with a fine-tooth comb.  Although the officer’s hunch may have been a good one, a police officer’s mere suspicion is insufficient to conduct an investigatory stop of a citizen in Florida. The officer needed to articulate a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity based on facts. The defense filed and argued a Motion to Suppress the traffic stop in front of St. Lucie County Judge Phil Yacucci.  The Motion to Suppress was granted and charges were dropped.