DEFENDANT, by and through his undersigned attorney and pursuant to Rule 3.

190(c)(4),
Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure, hereby moves this Honorable Court to dismiss the
Information filed in the above-captioned cause. As grounds for this Motion, Defendant states as
follows:

That, for the sole limited purpose of legal argument concerning the instant Motion to Dismiss,
the material facts produced in the State’s discovery will not be disputed;

That the material undisputed facts alleged by the State of Florida are in the Discovery provided
by the State of Florida, including Defendant’s Arrest and Booking Report, and are set forth as
follows:

1. On March 26, 2013, at approximately 12:26 a.m., Defendant was stopped by Officer
K.M. Custer of the West Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office.
2. The stop occurred at 1700 Southside Drive, West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County,
Florida.
3. 1700 Southside Drive is an apartment complex known as the “Pines at Southside”
(hereinafter referred to as Apartment Complex).
4. Officer Custer alleges that, at the time of the stop, Defendant was found in a Suzuki
Sidekick backing out of a parking space within the Apartment Complex.
5. The State of Florida alleges that, at all times material, Defendant’s driver’s license was
revoked or suspended, and/or that Defendant was classified as a Habitual Traffic
Offender.
6. As a result of the foregoing, the State of Florida has charged Defendant in a one-count
Information with Driving While License Suspended or Revoked- Felony Habitual
Offender, a violation of §322.34(5), Florida Statutes.
7. Florida Statutes §322.34(5) provides that “Any person whose driver’s license has been
revoked pursuant to s. 322.264 (habitual offender) and who drives any motor vehicle
upon the highways of this state while such license is revoked is guilty of a felony of the
third degree . . .”
8. Florida Statutes §322.01(39) defines “street or highway” as “the entire width between the
boundary lines of a way or place if any part of that way or place is open to public use for
purposes of vehicular traffic” (emphasis added).
9. In order for the State of Florida to prove that Defendant committed a violation of
§322.34(5), the State must establish that the charged conduct was within a “way or place”
that was “open to public use.”
10. Black’s Law Dictionary (Second Edition) defines the term “public” to mean “that
pertaining to a state, nation, or whole community” (emphasis added). The Merriam-
Webster Dictionary defines the term public as “of, relating to, or affecting all the people
or the whole area of a nation or state” (emphasis added).
11. At the time of the stop in question, entry into the Apartment Complex was monitored and
regulated by security personnel employed by the Apartment Complex.
12. Only residents, their authorized guests, and other specifically authorized persons were
permitted to enter the Apartment Complex.
13. To the extent that only tenants and other authorized persons were permitted entry into the
Apartment Complex, the location in question was not open to “public” use.
 14. Authorization for entry by a limited and specifically identified class of persons in no way
constitutes the “whole community” or “all the people” of the community.
15. In Galston v. State, 943 So.2d 968 (Fla. 5th DCA 2006), the Fifth District Court of
Appeal reversed a trial court’s denial of a Motion to Dismiss, where the undisputed
evidence established that the road in question was closed to the public.
16. As a result of the foregoing, Defendant is entitled to a dismissal in the above-captioned
cause as a matter of law. Furthermore, it is axiomatic that penal statutes be construed in
terms of their ordinary, literal meaning, and strictly in favor the accused. If the State of
Florida intended to punish similarly situated persons for alleged driving on ways or
places not open to public use, the statute should have so provided.

WHEREFORE, Defendant requests that this Honorable Court enter an Order dismissing the
above-captioned cause.