Sanchez

Sanchez v. Canales

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United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitJuly 30, 200906-55584California3,295 words

Opinion

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I. BACKGROUND

A. Factual Background

“Assuming [the plaintiffs’] version of the material facts is correct, as we must in the context of an interlocutory appeal of a qualified immunity decision,” CarePartners, LLC v. Lashway, 545 F.3d 867, 878 (9th Cir. 2008), the record estab- lishes the following: SANCHEZ v. CANALES 9961 Due to an increase in robberies in the Wilshire area, Los Angeles Police Department’s Career Criminal Detail (“CCD”) began conducting probation compliance checks on probation- ers with prior arrests for robbery living in the Wilshire area. As a condition of their release, every probationer in California is required to “submit his . . . person, property, place of resi- dence, vehicle, [and] personal effects, to search at any time, with or without a search warrant, warrant of arrest or reason- able cause by any probation officer or officer of the law.”

Officer James Canales, a defendant in this case, obtained a list of such probationers from Deputy Probation Officer Wes- ley Woo, another defendant. Oscar Sanchez (“Oscar”) was included in the list because police records indicated he was still on probation, had committed prior robberies,…

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