PEOPLE v. RAMIREZ

Docket No. Crim. 22489.

34 Cal.3d 541 (1983)

668 P.2d 761

194 Cal. Rptr. 454

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. RAUL RAMIREZ, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

September 6, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Quin Denvir, State Public Defender, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Russell I. Lynn and Donald L.A. Kerson, Deputy State Public Defenders, for Defendant and Appellant.

George Deukmejian and John K. Van de Kamp, Attorneys General, Robert H. Philibosian, Chief Assistant Attorney General, S. Clark Moore, Assistant Attorney General, Norman H. Sokolow, William R. Pounders, Edward T. Fogel, Jr., and Timothy E. Cary, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

John K. Van de Kamp, District Attorney (Los Angeles), Harry B. Sondheim and Roderick W. Leonard, Deputy District Attorneys, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him of possession of phencyclidine (PCP). He challenges a ruling denying his motion to suppress evidence obtained during a booking search on the grounds that he was first unlawfully detained and subsequently arrested on a warrant that had been recalled. We find the latter contention meritorious, and therefore reverse the judgment.

On May 29, 1980, at 12:45 a.m....

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