California Court of Appeal

Two independent reports by citizens that an individual matching defendant-s description, in defendant-s location, at that particular point in time, was carrying a firearm in a crowd of New Year Eve-s revelers, was sufficient to justify a pat-down search for weapons.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/10/2001
• Published 01/10/2001

Judges

• SEPULVEDA, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Ronald A. Bass, Assistant Attorney General, René A. Chacón, Juliet B. Haley, Deputy Attorneys General, Counsel for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Phillip A. Trevĩno, San Francisco, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Counsel for Respondent.