The Fourth Appellate District reversed a judgment of conviction. The court held that a defendant was entitled to separate appellate review of denials of his motions to set aside the information and to suppress evidence, and that each motion had to be reviewed on the record as it existed at the time the motion was decided.
A sheriff’s deputy stopped Alfredo Torres in his pickup truck after Torres made an unsafe lane change and failed to signal a turn. Torres told the deputy that he did not have a valid driver’s license. The deputy obtained Torres’ consent to search him and found four cellular phones and $965. The deputy decided to impound the truck. He placed Torres in the back of the patrol car and waited for his partner to arrive. The deputy and his partner conducted an inventory search of the truck. They found 12 ounces of methamphetamine under the driver’s sear and a pay/owe sheet in the back seat.
