Salitter

People v. Salitter

Good Law
128 Cal. Rptr. 149·1976 Cal. App. LEXIS 1314·55 Cal. App. 3d 1046
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaMarch 3, 1976Crim. No. 8237California622 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Eric William Salitter appeals his conviction of possessing a controlled substance (Health & Saf. Code, § 11378) based upon his guilty plea entered after the court denied his motion to suppress evidence.

State Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement Agent John Meisner, working undercover, arranged a buy of 25,000 amphetamine pills for $1,300. One of the two sellers went to an intermediary who in turn went to a house on Rancho Hills Drive. About 20 minutes later defendant Salitter drove up to the house and carried a brown paper bag inside.

*1048 Three minutes' later the intermediary left the house carrying a brown paper bag and drove away. Salitter left a little later and he was followed by officers to a house on Hopkins Street about a block and a half away.

The returning seller delivered the brown paper bag containing 25,000 amphetamine pills to Meisner who arranged another meeting to buy more pills. The two sellers were arrested at the later meeting and the intermediary was also arrested later.

There were a number of officers involved who had the participants to the transaction under surveillance and who were in radio communication with one another.

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