P. v. Medina CA3
After the trial court denied a motion to suppress evidence brought by defendant Lino Jose Medina, defendant pleaded no contest to possession of a firearm by a felon. The trial court subsequently denied defendant’s motion to withdraw his plea, suspended imposition of sentence, and placed defendant on probation for five years.
Defendant now contends (1) the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress evidence because the initial encounter between defendant and the police was an illegal detention, not a consensual encounter; (2) the trial court abused its discretion in denying his motion to withdraw his no contest plea because the City Attorney produced a supplemental police report two days after he entered the plea and he could have used the report to impeach a witness at the hearing on his suppression motion; and (3) if the Attorney General argues defendant’s second contention is forfeited for failure to raise it in the trial court, defendant’s trial counsel provided in
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