United States Ninth Circuit

A civil parking violation under California's Vehicle Code falls within the scope of the Supreme Court's decision in Whren v. US, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), that a traffic violation alone is sufficient to establish reasonable suspicion. Denial of defendant's pre-trial motion to suppress evidence in a prosecution for possession of a firearm by a felon is affirmed where a parking violation provided officers with reasonable suspicion to conduct an investigatory stop of the vehicle.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/28/2006
• Decided 08/25/2006
• Published 08/25/2006

Judges

• PAEZ, Circuit Judge., Before GILBERT S. MERRITT,ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, and RICHARD A. PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Mark Rosenbush, San Francisco, CA, for the defendant-appellant., Derek D. Owens, Special Assistant United States Attorney, and Barbara J. Valliere, Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorney's Office, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.