Constitutional Law
Jan. 11, 2007
Pulled Over, Not Out
FOCUS COLUMN - By Rodney Richard Jones - Rarely do the courts hold that a search of a car was improper. A Mendocino criminal lawyer examines a recent California appellate decision that suppressed evidence arising out of a bad traffic stop.
By Rodney Richard Jones
Successful suppression motions are an endangered species. Nobody knows that better than the deputy public defenders in the trenches trying each day to articulate how and why the Fourth Amendment should be protecting their clients' rights and why seized evidence really ought to be suppressed. A holding by a court of appeal that a search was unreasonable ha...
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