California Court of Appeal

Conviction for firearm possession by a felon is affirmed, as a motion to suppress was properly denied, where: 1) the officer who pulled over the defendant's vehicle for a traffic violation and then performed a patdown for weapons and found a loaded handgun in the defendant's waistband was aware, before the search, that the defendant was on probation and subject to warrantless search; and 2) any illegality in the traffic detention was attenuated by the defendant's probation search condition.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/19/2012
• Published 04/19/2012

Judges

• Needham

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gordon S. Brownell, Laurence K. Sullivan