California Court of Appeal

In an appeal of judgment of the juvenile court making defendant a ward of the court for unlawfully possessing a knife on school grounds, a police officer was a school official for purposes of the Fourth Amendment, and his search was justified by the reasonable suspicion that defendant was engaging in conduct that violated school rules.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/17/2003
• Published 09/17/2003

Judges

• POLLAK, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Kimberly B. Fitzgerald, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Counsel for defendant and appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Senior Assistant Attorney General, René A. Chacón, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Ryan B. McCarroll, Deputy Attorney General, Counsel for plaintiff and respondent.