P. v. Lamont
After the trial court denied Matthew Gordon Lamonts motion to suppress, he pleaded no contest to possessing a destructive device or explosive on a public street, possessing a destructive device or explosive with the intent to injure or destroy property, transporting a destructive device, and possessing materials with the intent to make a destructive device or explosive. The court sentenced him to three years in state prison. On appeal, Lamont challenged the trial courts denial of his suppression motion. Lamont argued that as a passenger in the car, he was seized when the police officer illegally stopped the car in which he was riding in violation of his Fourth Amendment rights. In this courts prior published opinion People v. Lamont (2004)
125 Cal.App.4th 404 (Lamont I), Court agreed and reversed the judgment.
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