Supreme Court of California

In the context of Health and Safety Code section 11366.8, which prohibits the possession of a "false compartment" "with the intent to ... conceal ... or transport a controlled substance within the false compartment", the California Supreme Court interprets section 11366.8 to exclude from its definition of "false compartment" a vehicle's original factory equipment that has not been modified, altered, or changed in any way.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/06/2008
• Published 11/06/2008

Judges

• CHIN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Richard M. Doctoroff, San Francisco, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Assistant Attorney General, Seth K. Schalit, John H. Deist, Laurence K. Sullivan and Jill M. Thayer, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.