Dickson

Appellant stands convicted following a plea of guilty to the manufacture of phencyclidine (PCP) in violation of Health and Safety Code section 11379. His plea was entered after the superior court denied his motion to suppress evidence seized by police officers without a search warrant.

The pertinent facts which led to the seizure of the evidence are as follows: In February 1977, appellant was employed as an assistant professor of chemistry at the Bakersfield campus of California State University. Appellant was assigned the use of a small laboratory in the university science building. The evidence which appellant sought to suppress (samples of PCP and materials used to manufacture that drug) was seized from that laboratory.

Sometime prior to February 14, 1977, Officer Middleton of the Bakersfield Police Department and Agent Johnson of the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration (FDEA) learned from a reliable informant that a black chemistry professor at California State University, Bakersfield, was manufacturing and selling PCP. Through further investigation, Officer Middleton determined that appellant was the only person at the college fitting that description.

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