P. v. Rose CA3
After the trial court denied his motion to suppress evidence obtained during warrantless searches of a hotel room for which he was the registered guest as well as of his cell phone and truck (Pen. Code, § 1538.5), defendant Thomas Michael Rose III pleaded no contest to possession of methamphetamine for sale and admitted a prior conviction for the same offense (Health & Saf. Code, §§ 11378, 11370.2, former subd. (c)). The court imposed a split sentence consisting of the lower term of 16 months for the drug possession offense plus three years for the prior drug conviction enhancement; the court suspended three years of the sentence and placed defendant on mandatory supervision by the probation department.
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