P. v. Watts
Filed 6/26/06 P. v. Watts CA3
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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT
(Shasta)
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| THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. LARRY JERDELL WATTS, JR., Defendant and Appellant. | C050081 (Sup. Ct. No. 04F8478)
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After the trial court denied his motion to suppress, defendant pled no contest to felon-in-possession of a firearm. (Pen. Code, § 12021, subd. (a)(1).) Defendant timely filed this appeal, seeking review of the suppression ruling. We shall affirm.
The facts pertaining to defendant's suppression motion (which, as the trial court explained with exasperation, did not state any grounds) are not challenged. We review de novo whether those facts reflect unlawful police conduct. (People v. Glaser (1995) 11 Cal.4th 354, 362.)
Shortly after midnight on October 24, 2004, the Redding Police Department dispatcher issued a call that there was a Black man with a gun at Rumors, a local nightclub. Officer Randy Buntin was in his patrol car about one block away and arrived at Rumors in about 30 seconds. A crowd of people were near the doorway and three or four of them started yelling â€
