Pritchett

People v. Pritchett

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Court of Appeal of CaliforniaMay 28, 2024A168411California2,750 words

Opinion

Opinion

Wilson, J.

I. BACKGROUND

We take the following facts from the evidence elicited at the hearing on Pritchett’s motion to suppress. In September 2021, Nick Vlahandreas, a narcotics detective for Santa Rosa, conducted a search of Pritchett’s hotel room. Prior to the search, Vlahandreas checked Crimnet, which is a database of information “straight” from Sonoma County courts. “[T]here is no one at the police agency . . . that enters [the information].” Crimnet lists a person’s “pending court cases, prior arrests, probation status, things of that nature.” It also noted if someone’s probation had been terminated. In this case, Crimnet showed that Pritchett was on active probation with a condition that she “submit to warrantless search and seizure of person, property, residence, vehicles.” In conducting the probation search, Vlahandreas and the officers accompanying him knocked on Pritchett’s door and detained her after she answered. A search of her room located U.S. currency and what Vlahandreas believed was fentanyl. Pritchett was charged with one felony count of possession for sale of a controlled substance. (Health & Saf. Code, § 11351.) She subsequently moved to suppress the evidence obtained…

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