Court Opinion

ID: 9731963
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 16:03:10.445066+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:22.219535
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AGLIANO, P. J., Concurring.
I concur in the judgment but for different reasons. In my view the facts suggest that the claimed illegal detention (blocking defendant’s vehicle) was not a factor in the officer’s detection of burning incense which spurred further lawful investigation; that the contraband, rather, was the independent product of the officer’s contact with defendant which was consensual and lawful; that any detention was related only temporally to the discovery of evidence and was not a factor which facilitated or otherwise contributed to discovery of the evidence. In my view, the evidence, under such circumstances, would have been lawfully obtained. (See People v. Bailey (1985) 176 Cal.App.3d 402, 406-409 [222 Cal.Rptr. 235] (dis. opn.).)
As the lead opinion points out, however, the hearing below was conducted on a different theory. The facts regarding the theory of independent source *813not having been fully developed, it would not be appropriate to resolve the case on that theory now.