PEOPLE v. SUPERIOR COURT (GODWIN)

Docket No. 40540.

68 Cal.App.3d 780 (1977)

137 Cal. Rptr. 586

THE PEOPLE, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Respondent; ROBERT ALLAN GODWIN, Real Party in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Three.

March 31, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Jack R. Winkler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Edward P. O'Brien, Assistant Attorney General, William D. Stein and David Schneller, Deputy Attorneys General, for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Sheldon Portman, Public Defender, Katharine V. Alexander and Nancy Hoffman, Deputy Public Defenders, for Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

DRAPER, P.J.

Charged with sexual molestation of a child (Pen. Code, § 288), defendant confessed his guilt in a police station interview. Shortly before the confession, he had been arrested on the sidewalk outside the apartment house in which he lived. He moved (Pen. Code, § 1538.5) to suppress evidence of the confession, asserting it to be the product of an unlawful...

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