Legal Opinion
Ford v. Superior Court
California Court of Appeal
Decided August 28, 2001No. A094667PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
KAY, J.
Petitioner Royce Ford, Jr., is charged with the murder of April Matlock. (Pen. Code, § 187.) The information alleges that petitioner personally used a deadly weapon (Pen. Code, § 12022, subd. (b)) and inflicted great bodily injury (Pen. Code, § 1203.075) in committing the offense, and that he had previously been convicted of welfare fraud (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 10980, subd. (c)(2)).
Petitioner gave a taped statement to the police confessing to the murder. He moved to suppress the confession on the ground that it was the fruit of an illegal arrest, and to suppress physical…
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