Legal Opinion
People v. Gonzalez
California Court of Appeal
Decided June 2, 1998No. Docket Nos. B103203, B116738PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
JOHNSON, J.
In this case the defendant confessed to a robbery after he was arrested without probable cause. Following this confession, and while he was still in custody, police officers from another jurisdiction obtained his confession to other crimes. The issue is whether the confession to a crime other than the one for which the defendant was illegally arrested, to officers from a different police agency who were unaware of the circumstances of the defendant’s arrest, is sufficiently attenuated from the illegal arrest to dissipate its taint. We hold that under the circumstances…
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