People v. Holloway

Opinion

GATES, J.

Following a “slow plea of guilty” effected by means of a submission upon the transcript of his preliminary hearing (see In re Mosley (1970) Cal.3d 913 [83 Cal.Rptr. 809, 464 P.2d 473]), appellant, Robert Earl Holloway, was convicted of possessing cocaine in violation of Health and Safety Code section 11350. He appeals from the ensuing judgment (order granting probation) contending “the cocaine seized from the hand of appellant should have been suppressed as it was a product of an unlawful detention.”

At 2:58 a.m. on the morning of May 6, 1984, Officers Lumas and Tucker were on…