California Court of Appeal

In a plea of no contest to resisting an executive officer arising from defendant's refusal to permit officer to search him and his subsequent attempt to evade arrest, denial of motion to suppress evidence is affirmed where the defendant's subsequent conduct in resisting the officers was an independent act that dissipated the taint from the unlawful seizure.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/21/2008
• Published 11/21/2008

Judges

• ROBIE, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• William A. Malloy, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey D. Firestone and Jeffrey A. White, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.