PEOPLE v. LOPEZ

Docket No. G006708.

212 Cal.App.3d 289 (1989)

260 Cal. Rptr. 641

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. SERVANDO NAJERA LOPEZ, Defendant and Respondent.

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

July 19, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Cecil Hicks, District Attorney, Michael R. Capizzi, Maurice L. Evans, Assistant District Attorneys, Thomas M. Goethals, E. Thomas Dunn and Andrea Burke, Deputy District Attorneys, for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Ronald Y. Butler, Public Defender, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Carl C. Holmes, Thomas Havlena and Ronald E. Klar, Deputy Public Defenders, for Defendant and Respondent.


OPINION

CROSBY, J.

(1a) The question presented here is whether a police request for identification during a street encounter amounts to a detention in the sense that a reasonable person would not feel free to leave under the circumstances and must be grounded upon some reasonable suspicion. The answer is no.

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Santa Ana Police Corporal Richard Reese, a...

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