A San Bernardino Sheriff deputy’s finding of a firearm in a felon’s car was invalidated May 2 by a split appellate ruling in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal.
The majority opinion found that the deputies did not find the gun as part of a valid inventory of Jason Anderson’s truck, but rather as a violation of his right to privacy. A five-judge dissenting opinion disagreed.
The uncontested facts
Ninth Circuit Judge Danielle Forrest wrote the majority opinion.
Anderson was driving with an obscured license plate along an unidentified high-crime area of San Bernardino County at 2 p.m., Nov. 13, 2019. Sheriff’s Deputy Daniel Peterson noticed
