Escarcega

People v. Escarcega

Good Law
117 Cal. Rptr. 595·1974 Cal. App. LEXIS 1323·43 Cal. App. 3d 391
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaNovember 22, 1974Crim. No. 12602California3,300 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Elkington, J.

Defendant Escarcega has appealed from a “judgment of conviction and sentence” which were rendered and entered following his conviction by a jury’s verdicts, of grand theft (Pen. Code, § § 484, 487), and of assault with a deadly weapon, in violation of Penal Code section 245, subdivision (a).

*394 No contention is made that the verdicts were unsupported by the evidence placed before the jury. But it is argued that certain evidence, two knives and a jacket found in an automobile driven by Escarcega, had been obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment. The specific argument is that the officer had no right to follow and stop the automobile and to detain its two occupants. No contention is made, assuming validity of the detention, that there was an invalid search or seizure.

The trial court found against Escarcega on the issue.

We had previously made and filed our decision on this appeal affirming the judgment. But we granted a rehearing on the representation of Escarcega’s appellate counsel that we had “falsely” misstated the “true state of affairs surrounding the vehicle stop.” Particularly it was insisted that “[t]he statement in the opinion that the police radio…

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