California Court of Appeal

Conviction following guilty plea to possession of a controlled substance and being a convicted felon in possession of ammunition is reversed where there was no probable cause to support the search warrant where the only facts known to law enforcement were that a suspect was cultivating marijuana legally pursuant to the Compassionate Use Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/16/2006
• Published 04/14/2006

Judges

• BLEASE, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyear, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Mary Jo Graves, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Carlos A. Martinez, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Ruth M. Saavedra, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent., Robert C. Schell, Jackson, CA, for Defendant and Appellant.