California Court of Appeal

Defendant's convictions for various drug-related offenses and other crimes are reversed and remanded where: 1) defendant is entitled to separate review of the denials of his motion to set aside and his motion to suppress; and 2) the inventory search was unlawful because the prosecution did not show the police reasonably impounded defendant's truck pursuant to their community caretaking function, but rather, the record shows that this was a pretextual inventory search conducted as a ruse for a criminal investigation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/21/2010
• Published 09/21/2010

Judges

• IKOLA

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael Ian Garey, Edmund G. Brown, Jr.