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PEOPLE v. LAFITTE

Docket No. G007024.

211 Cal.App.3d 1429 (1989)

259 Cal. Rptr. 915

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. CHARLES FRANCIS LAFITTE, Defendant and Appellant.

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

June 30, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Ronald Y. Butler, Public Defender, Carl C. Holmes, Thomas Havlena and Carol E. Lavacot, Deputy Public Defenders, for Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Steve White, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Rudolf Corona, Jr., and Maxine P. Cutler, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

SONENSHINE, J.

(1a) May law enforcement officers justify a protective search of a traffic detainee's car when the sole basis for believing the suspect dangerous was the plain view observation of a legal weapon within that vehicle? Yes.

I

On March 14, 1988, at approximately 10:15 p.m., Orange County Sheriff's Deputies Kevin Bieker and David Koppin were on routine patrol

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