People v. Davison CA1/2

BACKGROUND

I. Factual Background The incident underlying Davison’s present convictions occurred on June 3, 2021. About 3:30 a.m., Antonio Carrion noticed a car stopped in the

1 middle of the road in front of his house with the brake lights on and a person in the car slumped over to the right. Carrion called the police. Sheriff’s Sergeant Chet Schneider arrived and found the car in the middle of the road with its headlights and brake lights on. Davison was slumped over in the driver’s seat, his whole body below the dashboard, and his foot on the brake. The car’s engine was running, the automatic shift was in drive and there was a wine bottle on the front passenger seat. Schneider opened the door, reached across Davison and put the car in park. Davison appeared to be asleep. He had a phone in his hand, the screen of which was illuminated. Schneider woke Davison up and, after asking a few questions, removed him from the car and detained him. Davison started to “tip over” and stumble, and Schneider had to use “quite a bit of force or strength to prevent him from hitting the ground.” Schneider placed Davison in the back seat of the patrol car and called the California Highway Patrol…