People v. Shafer CA4/1

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COURT OF APPEAL, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION ONE

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

THE PEOPLE, D085999

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v. (Super. Ct. No. FVI24000322)

DANIELLE ILEEN SHAFER,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of San Bernardino County, Enrique Guerrero, Judge. Affirmed. John L. Staley, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Rob Bonta, Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Charles C. Ragland, Assistant Attorney General, Collette C. Cavalier, Kathryn Kirschbaum, and Nora S. Weyl, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Danielle Ileen Shafer pled no contest to possession of a loaded firearm

in violation of Penal Code1 section 25850. The court sentenced her to 345 days in jail with credit for time served and a grant of probation. The sole issue on appeal is whether the trial court erred in denying Shafer's motion to suppress the evidence found in her tent. (§ 1538.5). We conclude the trial court did not err because Shafer was trespassing on private land and did not have an objective expectation of privacy in her tent. Accordingly, we affirm. I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND In January 2024, San Bernardino County Sheriff Deputy Jonathan Gray was patrolling an open desert area with no fence. The location had a large ravine with shrubs, trees, dirt, and a small riverbed. Near the ravine was a large warehouse style factory building. The deputy discovered a tent approximately 500 to 700 yards west of the building. The tent was about 30 feet in length and 20 feet at its widest. Surrounding the tent was a significant quantity of household goods, tools, generators, home decor, yard decor, several other things one would find at a standard house, and debris. There was a no trespassing sign on the ground, relatively near the large tent. He did not see any other “no trespassing” signs. There was a makeshift gun range approximately 15 to 30 feet east of the tent, directly adjacent to one of the tent doors. The targets had bullet holes. There was a bucket of shell casings and spent or fired cartridge casings near the homemade rings of the range.