Supreme Court of California

A condition of probation requiring a defendant to notify his probation officer of the presence of any pets at the defendant's place of residence is valid as: 1) such a condition facilitates the effective supervision of probationers and, as such, is reasonably related to deterring future criminality; and 2) no fundamental or constitutional rights are implicated by the challenged term of probation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/29/2009
• Published 01/02/2009

Judges

• GEORGE, C.J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• John L. Staley, San Diego, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson and Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Steven T. Oetting, Barry Carlton and Stephanie H. Chow, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.