California Court of Appeal

Grant of defendant's motion to suppress evidence is reversed and remanded where: 1) a police officer's observation of a revolver while looking over the fence from the front yard did not violate defendant's reasonable expectation of privacy; and 2) under these circumstances, a warrantless intrusion into defendant's side yard was justified by exigent circumstances.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/17/2008
• Published 04/17/2008

Judges

• ROBIE, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Senior Assistant Attorney General, John G. McLean, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Doris A. Calandra, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Meredith J. Watts, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Respondent.