People v. Stanley

*400The superior court granted defendant Reese Allen Stanley's suppression motion and dismissed the criminal action against him after it found that the detention of defendant by a sheriff's deputy was not supported by reasonable suspicion. The prosecution challenges that finding. We conclude that the deputy's detention of defendant was reasonable, and we therefore reverse the superior court's order.

I. Facts

On the afternoon of May 7, 2015, Deputy Brian Tanaka responded to a dispatch telling him that a bus driver had spotted the suspect in "a 288 case" (lewd act on a child) on a VTA

*401bus in San Jose.…