People v. Gardner CA3

FACTS AND HISTORY OF THE PROCEEDINGS

This appeal arises out of five separate cases.

Case No 20F5316 (case No. 316)

Case No. 316 started out in Sacramento County Superior Court where a jury convicted defendant of possession of and transportation of a controlled substance.

1 (Health & Saf. Code, §§ 11738, 11739.) (Statutory section citations that follow are found in the Health and Safety Code unless otherwise stated.) Defendant was in a car when officers conducted a traffic stop. Officers noticed a bulge in defendant’s pants. On further search of the defendant and the car, they discovered 3.27 pounds of methamphetamine and a scale. The Sacramento Superior Court sentenced defendant to four years with two years in custody in county jail followed by two years of mandatory supervision. The Sacramento Superior Court later granted defendant’s motion to transfer supervision of his supervised release to Shasta County Superior Court where it became case No. 316. In December 2020, the Shasta County Probation department filed a petition for revocation of defendant’s supervised release based on allegations he failed to report to the probation department in October, and he was found in…