Legal Opinion
People v. Superior Court (Gunn)
California Court of Appeal
Decided December 4, 1980No. Civ. 60190PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
FILES, P. J.
This proceeding was brought here under Penal Code section 1538.5, subdivision (o), to review a pretrial order of the superior court suppressing as evidence a gold ring (exhibit 8) which had been taken from Phillip Gunn (a defendant charged with murder) upon the ground of illegal search and seizure. The evidentiary facts relevant to this issue are not in dispute and will be summarized.
On January 29, 1979, Officers Davis and Petroski undertook investigation of a homicide which had been committed early that morning. By February 5, 1979, they had the confession of an accomplice…
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