People v. Bonwit

Opinion

WALLIN, J,

John Ford Bonwit pleaded guilty to a single count of selling cocaine. (Health & Saf. Code, § 11352.) He obtained a certificate of probable cause to appeal the trial court’s denial of his pretrial Hitch motion 1 seeking dismissal for a claimed destruction of material evidence. The trial court agreed evidence had been destroyed, but refused to dismiss the information and instead imposed a lesser sanction—suppression. Although he thereafter pleaded guilty, Bonwit purports to appeal the refusal to dismiss. Ironically, we would find the sanction imposed was appropriate, but are…