P. v. Patterson CA1/1
Defendant Charles Patterson pleaded guilty to one felony count of possession of metal knuckles and was placed on probation for three years. On appeal, his sole claim is that his motion to suppress the metal knuckles was wrongly denied because they were obtained as the result of an unlawful detention. We need not decide whether the detention was unlawful, however, because even if it was, the motion was properly denied. The officer’s discovery that Patterson was subject to a probation search condition was an intervening circumstance attenuating the taint of any Fourth Amendment violation that would otherwise justify suppression of the evidence under the exclusionary rule. Accordingly, we affirm.
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