Florida v. Thomas

Florida v. Thomas
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 25, 2001 Decided June 4, 2001
Full case name	Florida, Petitioner v. Robert A. Thomas, Respondent.
Citations	532 U.S. 774 (more) 121 S. Ct. 1905; 150 L. Ed. 2d 1
Case history
Prior	Evidence suppressed during trial; suppression reversed, 711 So.2d 1241 (Fla. 2d DCA, 1998); reversed, 761 So.2d 1010 (Fla., 2000)
Holding
The writ of certiorari was improvidently granted as the Florida state courts have not made a 'reviewable final-judgement'.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinion
Majority	Rehnquist, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
Ruling based on precedent

Florida v. Thomas, 532 U.S. 774 (2001), is a United States Supreme Court case decided in 2001. The case brought to the court concerned the extent of the Court's earlier decision in New York v. Belton, concerning whether a person was in custody, a determination central to allowing evidence seized in an automobile search to be presented in trial. However, the Court unanimously dismissed the case because the decision of the Florida state courts was not "final".