Legal Opinion
People v. Thompson
California Court of Appeal
Decided February 14, 1979No. Crim. 33001PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
COMPTON, J.
Defendant was convicted in a nonjury trial of possessing heroin for sale on the basis of, inter alia, evidence that police officers found in excess of 27 grams of heroin in his residence. The evidence was seized pursuant to a search warrant. Defendant offered no defense.
On appeal defendant contends that the search warrant was improperly issued and- executed and that the People should have been forced to disclose the identity of an informant whose information formed a major part of the basis for the issuance of the search warrant. We affirm.
The Search Warrant
Officer Kingsford…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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- United States v. VentrescaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Ker v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- People v. MaddoxCalifornia Supreme Court · 1956
- United States v. Robert Leonard LucarzCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1970
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3Cited by12 opinions
- State v. MyersWashington Supreme Court · 1984
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