Meloney

Certified for Partial Publication. [*]

Appellant Keith Robert Meloney was convicted after a jury trial of transportation of methamphetamine and possession of methamphetamine for purposes of sale, as well as the misdemeanor offense of driving on a suspended driver's license. (Health & Saf.Code, §§ 11379, subd. (a), 11378; Veh.Code, § 14601.1, subd. (a).) Appellant contends the trial court abused its discretion in three evidentiary rulings, and should not have lifted a stay of a mandatory two-year sentence enhancement charging that appellant was released on bail in Santa Clara County when he committed the present offenses. We reject these contentions and affirm the judgment.

On the evening of February 2, 2000, at around 11:15 p.m., appellant was driving the car of his passenger and eventual codefendant, Jason Gadoury, at a high rate of speed near the west end of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. Two San Rafael police officers in a marked patrol vehicle, Ray Fernandez and Jean Ahuncain, followed and made a traffic stop of the speeding vehicle. Just before the car came to a stop, Fernandez noticed the driver (appellant) lean over toward his passenger, Gadoury, so that…