California Court of Appeal

Denial of defendant-minor's motion to suppress is affirmed on grounds that there was no search of defendant's assigned physical education locker and that his admission that he had a knife in his backpack provided authorities with reasonable suspicion to justify the intrusion into minors backpack.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/29/2004
• Published 07/29/2004

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Valoree Wortham, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Pamela A. Ratner Sobeck, Laura Stillwell Studebaker, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.