Supreme Court of California

For purposes of a conviction on of any of offense involving fleeing from a pursuing peace officer's motor vehicle, a peace officer's vehicle is "distinctively marked" if its outward appearance during the pursuit exhibits, in addition to a red light and a siren, one or more features that are reasonably visible to other drivers and distinguish it from vehicles not used for law enforcement so as to give reasonable notice to the person being pursued that the pursuit is by the police.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/19/2006
• Published 06/19/2006

Judges

• KENNARD, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey A. Needleman, under appointment by the Supreme Court, San Francisco, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, Joseph P. Lee, Jeffrey A. Hoskinson, Donald E. De Nicola, Jaime L. Fuster and Zee Rodriguez, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.