Jordan

People v. Jordan

Good Law
128 Cal. Rptr. 147·1976 Cal. App. LEXIS 1306·55 Cal. App. 3d 965
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaMarch 1, 1976Crim. No. 14333California803 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Draper, J.

Police Officers Price and Lawrence received a radio call reporting a possible family dispute and “a man with a gun” at 15 and 20 Apollo Street. Officer Price testified that the listing of two addresses indicated that “more than one person had initiated a call.” Upon arrival in the area, Officer Price observed a police car, unoccupied, in the neighborhood of No. 20. (Other evidence established that officers in another patrol car, answering a slightly earlier call, had left their car and taken cover when appellant pointed a rifle at them from across the same street.) Price saw a man in front of No. 15 pointing a rifle down the street and in the direction of that police car. As the patrol car stopped, the rifleman [appellant] turned and ran into the house at No. 15, cariying the rifle. The officers approached and after peering into the house through the door appellant had left open, Price entered. He saw appellant, *967 unarmed, coming down a hallway from the rear. When Price asked where the gun was, appellant answered that he did not have a gun, and that what Price had observed was a broomstick. Appellant was taken into custody by one officer, and Price went down the hall…

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