P. v. Murphy CA3
A Butte County Sheriff’s Deputy obtained a warrant to search defendant Charles Darrell Murphy, Jr.’s mobile home and found firearms, ammunition, dozens of Vicodin pills, and a methamphetamine pipe. Probable cause for the search warrant was based, in part, on Murphy’s status as a convicted felon, which in turn was based on a Department of Justice (DOJ) rap sheet, which indicated Murphy had been convicted of a felony in 2005. The DOJ rap sheet was wrong in that it failed to indicate that the 2005 conviction had been reduced to a misdemeanor nearly three and one-half years earlier.
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