California Court of Appeal

Trial court's ruling, placing defendant on probation for three years subject to various conditions after pleading no contest to obliterating the identification of a firearm, is reversed as the search conducted following defendant's arrest violated the Fourth Amendment, a violation of sufficient gravity to entitle defendant to the remedy of suppression of the evidence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/29/2009
• Published 10/29/2009

Judges

• DUFFY, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jonathan E. Berger, Law Offices of Jonathan E. Berger, Los Angeles, George L. Schraer, Law Offices of George L. Schraer, Attorneys for Defendant and Appellant, under appointment by the Court of Appeal., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Stan Helfman, Laurence K. Sullivan, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Aileen Bunney, Deputy Attorney General, Attorneys for Plaintiff and Respondent.