Null
People v. Null
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Andreen, J.
Defendant Kathryn Wanda Null was found guilty upon jury trial of cultivating marijuana and possession of marijuana for sale. (Health & Saf. Code, §§ 11358 and 11359.) She appeals from a sentence admitting her to probation.
I. Facts
After conducting an aerial search and utilizing parcel maps and recorder’s documents, Detective Conley of the Tulare County Sheriff’s Department obtained a search warrant to seize marijuana which he had observed on defendant’s 50-acre parcel of land.
The subsequent search netted two marijuana gardens with six-month-old plants. The gardens were in a ravine about 200 to 250 feet below defendant’s mobilehome. A sophisticated drip irrigation system was utilized. The waterline fed out of the pump which supplied water to the mobilehome; the electrical line used to run that pump was tied into the mobilehome’s electrical service.
*851 Near the gardens Conley found manure, poisons, plastic cement, pliers, irrigation parts, wirecutters and shovels. Near the mobilehome Conley found manure and hoses similar to that used in the garden.
While Conley conducted the search for the gardens, Sergeant McLaughlin searched Null’s mobilehome. He found two…