Supreme Court of California

In a companion case to People v. Hernandez, __ Cal.4th __ (Dec. 12, 2008, S150038), the California Supreme Court rules that the officer in this DUI case acted with sufficient particularized suspicion to justify the traffic stop in circumstances where the officer saw that defendant's car did not have license plates or a temporary permit in the rear window, and he could not see whether there was a temporary permit in the front window (which there was).

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/11/2008
• Published 12/11/2008

Judges

• CORRIGAN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson and Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Barry Carlton, Steven T. Oetting, Jennifer A. Jadovitz and Jeffrey J. Koch, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent., Jean Ballantine, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Los Angeles, for Defendant and Appellant.