People v. Bass CA4/2

FACTS

Bass was tried on offenses arising from two separate events, one in 2019, the other

in 2021. Only the offenses from 2019 are relevant to this appeal. Bass’s motion did not

set forth any summary of the facts surrounding the circumstances of his arrest. The

prosecution did provide a summary of the facts in its opposition to defendant’s motion for

pretrial discovery, which we summarize below.

According to the prosecution, on March 29, 2019, two San Bernardino County

deputy sheriffs were on patrol together in an unmarked vehicle. They stopped a car they

1 Undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code.

2 The facts were taken from a report prepared by one of the deputies at the scene of defendant’s arrest.{CT 230-231}

2 suspected of window tint and license plate violations.3 Bass was driving that car, with his

wife in the front passenger seat.

When the deputies turned on their emergency lights to pull the car over, it instead

sped up, then turned “abruptly” into a parking lot and parked. The deputies stopped

behind it. When the deputies approached the car, one on each side, the encounter was

immediately contentious. Bass failed to comply with the…