People v. Roberts

Defendant was found guilty by a jury of a violation of Penal Code, section 288a. From an order suspending imposition of sentence and granting probation on certain conditions, he appeals.

As a result of complaints about homosexual activity in a park's public rest room, Deputy Sheriff Gingery and Detective Martin were assigned to investigate. They stationed themselves in a space adjacent to the men’s rest room, set apart from that room by a double wood wall separated by an air space of approximately 1% inches. Several holes were drilled in the wall through which the officers could see what might…