Legal Opinion
Pena v. Municipal Court
California Court of Appeal
Decided August 16, 1979No. Civ. 4418PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
ZENOVICH, J.
Appellant Gloria Pena was charged with making a false report of a criminal offense to a police officer (Pen. Code, § 148.5) by a complaint filed in Tulare County Municipal Court on June 12, 1978. Appellant moved to dismiss the complaint on the grounds of discriminatory prosecution alleging the complaint was filed solely because she had filed a grievance with the chief of police charging that officers who had arrested her for an offense had used excessive force and had not returned $25 following her release. The municipal court held appellant had failed to make a prima facie…
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