Legal Opinion
Armenta v. Superior Court
California Court of Appeal
Decided August 27, 1976No. Civ. 48414PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
COBEY, J.
Armenta seeks a writ of mandate to suppress certain evidence which he claims was seized pursuant to an unconstitutional and illegal search. (See Pen. Code, § 1538.5, subd. (o).) On April 23, 1976, this court issued a temporary stay of appellant’s trial. Qn June 9, 1976, we granted an alternative writ and set the matter for hearing.
We now think that the search was illegal but not unconstitutional and will therefore deny the peremptory writ.
Facts
In December 1975 and January 1976, the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Department, using one Eugene Lancaster as its informant, undertook a…
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