PEOPLE v. SUN
Where defendant was charged with 10 separate violations of Penal Code Sec. 12020(a)(2), proscribing possession of large capacity magazines, trial court's order merging those charges into one count, in direct contradiction to the statutory authority of Sec. 12001(l), was in excess of jurisdiction. Search warrant was invalid where based on data supplied by defendant under compulsion of National Firearms Act, which explicitly renders such data inadmissible, subject to limited exceptions, in "any criminal proceeding," not just at trial. State agents did not execute search warrant in "objective good faith" where, unbeknownst to issuing magistrate, information in underlying affidavit was disclosed to the state by federal inspector in violation of confidentiality required by federal statute.
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