People v. Ortiz
California Court of Appeal
[Opinion certified for partial publication.*]
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
SCOTLAND, J.
While walking down a hotel hallway, two police officers passed the partially open door of a hotel room. Through the doorway, one of the officers observed defendant Fernando M. Ortiz in the room with a woman who was counting out tinfoil bindles and placing them on a table. Reasonably believing the bindles contained heroin, and fearing the contraband might be destroyed if he did not act immediately, the officer entered the room, arrested defendant and the woman, and seized the heroin.
After defendant’s motion to suppress evidence was denied, a jury convicted him of possessing…
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