C.T. v. State

In C.T. v. State, 481 So. 2d 9 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985), the defendant was stopped for riding a bicycle without a headlight. He gave a false name to the officer. After partially filling out the citation form, the officer ran the false name through the police computer to check for outstanding warrants. "Immediately thereafter, and while still at the scene of the initial stop, the appellant admitted his falsehood and gave the officer his true legal name." Id. at 10. The first district reversed the defendant's conviction because, even though the false name had been "officially recorded" on the citation, "it was undisputed that the juvenile promptly and voluntarily recanted the false information and thus did not interfere with the officer's performance of his duties other than by causing a relatively insignificant loss of time." Id.