People v. Dinneen

Opinion

KATZ, P. J.

These appeals involve the validity of arrests in connection with Vehicle Code misdemeanors or infractions made pursuant to warrants served beyond the hours prescribed by section 840 of the Penal Code, where such service was authorized by a blanket direction that all such warrants should be so served and that direction was made without any consideration of the facts and circumstances of the particular cases. Section 840 prohibits the service of misdemeanor and infraction arrest warrants between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. unless “made pursuant to a warrant which, for good cause shown,…