People v. Atwood

Opinion

SIMS, J.

Defendant Evelyn Margaret Atwood was a passenger in a car stopped by an El Dorado County Sheriff’s deputy. She consented to the search of her purse, and the deputy found a bindle containing approximately one-half gram of heroin.

Defendant pled no contest to transporting heroin (Health & Saf. Code, § 11352, subd. (a)) and was sentenced to three years’ probation on the conditions that she participate in counseling for drug treatment under Proposition 36, the statutory initiative which mandates probation without incarceration for specified drug offenses, and that she follow all…