Legal Opinion
People v. SEMINOFF
California Court of Appeal
Decided January 29, 2008No. G037484PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BEDS WORTH, J.
This is a case in which the trial court was confronted with a witness—appellant’s girlfriend and codefendant—who, after giving critical testimony in a suppression hearing, invoked her Fifth Amendment rights and refused to answer crucial questions on cross-examination. The trial court struck her testimony and denied the Penal Code section 1538.5 motion based on the testimony of the police who participated in the search.
That is, obviously, a drastic sanction, and Anthony Douglas Seminoff appeals on the bases the court erred both in striking the testimony and in finding the…
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