P. v. Castanon
Defendant was convicted by jury of oral copulation committed upon an unconscious victim, a felony, and two controlled substance misdemeanors: possession of paraphernalia and being under the influence. The trial court sentenced him to 16 years (a doubled upper term for a second strike), and it ordered the misdemeanors to run concurrently with the prison term. Defendant challenges his misdemeanor convictions only, claiming that the rationale stated by the trial court for dismissing a further misdemeanor charge of obstructing an officer, that defendant's detention was unlawful because the officer failed to advise defendant of the basis for the detention, tainted the seizure of evidence of the two misdemeanor convictions. Court affirm.
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