People v. White
California Court of Appeal
[Opinion certified for partial publication.*]
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
SIMONS, J.
An officer on patrol observed a car with only one Arizona license plate affixed and with a tree-shaped air freshener hanging from the rearview mirror. Believing that these constituted Vehicle Code violations, the officer stopped the car and, in the course of his investigation, discovered five pounds of marijuana and thousands of dollars in cash in the trunk. Arizona, however, issues only one plate per vehicle, and we conclude that the officer’s error of law, though made in good faith, cannot form the basis for a vehicle stop. We also determine that the evidence produced at…
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