HARROTT v. COUNTY OF KINGS

No. S055064.

108 Cal.Rptr.2d 445 (2001)

25 Cal.4th 1138

25 P.3d 649

J.W. HARROTT, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. COUNTY OF KINGS et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

June 28, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Dulcich, Delano, for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Donald Kilmer, San Jose; Trutanich Michel, CD. Michel, San Pedro; Benenson & Kates and Don B. Kates, San Pedro, for the National Rifle Association of America as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Denis A. Eymil, County Counsel and William James Murphy, Deputy County Counsel, for Defendants and Respondents.

Morrison & Foerster, James P. Bennett, Barry R. Himmelstein, San Francisco; Dennis Henigan and Brian J. Siebel, for Center to Prevent Handgun Violence, California Police Chiefs' Association, California State Sheriffs' Association, California Peace Officers' Association and City and County of San Francisco as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.


BROWN, J.

Mr. Harrott is an attorney. He received a gun collection in payment for legal services rendered to clients who had pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property. The Kings County Sheriffs Department, which was in possession of the gun collection, did not assert that one of the weapons, a semiautomatic rifle (the rifle), was stolen property, but nevertheless refused to deliver it to Mr. Harrott on the ground...

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