Clewis was arrested for a midnight street sale of cocaine to a police officer, over four hours after the incident, by another police officer who did not witness the transaction. Clewis claimed to be a victim of a misidentification. Officer Meyers, an undercover Key West police officer who made the purchase, made the only eyewitness identification of the defendant as the seller. When arrested, the defendant had no drugs in his possession, was in attire different from that worn by the drug dealer, and was not in possession of the marked money used to make the purchase.
