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FACTS AND PROCEDURE

Officer Michael Skeen of the Redding Police Department made a traffic stop of a vehicle the defendant was driving. The registration on the vehicle was expired. The officer asked the defendant for his identification, but the defendant said he did not have identification. The defendant then gave Officer Skeen a false name. After Officer Skeen checked the name and told the defendant that he did not fit the description of that person, the defendant admitted who he was and said that the vehicle belonged to his wife. Officer Skeen asked the defendant if any drugs found in the vehicle would belong to him, and the defendant answered that they would be his. Officer Skeen then conducted a lawful search of the car and found under the backseat a plastic bag with methamphetamine in it. The officer asked the defendant what was in the bag and to whom it belonged, and the defendant identified it as methamphetamine and said it belonged to him. The parties stipulated that the search of the vehicle the defendant was driving was legal. The jury was informed of that fact. The jury was not informed that it was a parole search. In Shasta County case No. 08F7133, the defendant…