California Court of Appeal

Conviction of defendant for possession of drugs and a firearm is affirmed as the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies and the evidence obtained by virtue of a search incident to arrest may not be suppressed despite the retroactive applicability of Gant to this case.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/17/2009
• Published 12/17/2009

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Michele A. Douglass, 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, David A. Rhodes and Brian G. Smiley, Supervising Deputy Attorneys General, Darren K. Indermill, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.