California Court of Appeal

A passenger in another person-s car can contest the validity of a traffic stop of that car. Facts and inferences were insufficient to support a reasonable suspicion that the temporary permit was not for that car; thus the stop was unlawful and the evidence seized from the defendant and the car should have been suppressed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/27/2004
• Published 01/27/2004

Judges

• SCOTLAND, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• James F. Johnson, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, San Francisco, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Jo Graves, Senior Assistant Attorney General, John G. McLean and Clifford E. Zall, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.