Does the fact that a police cruiser of unknown size had to make a three-point turn instead of a U-turn compel the inference that the street was too narrow to keep to the right of center?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Acosta, B275629 (Cal. App. 2017):

reasonable factual inferences. (People v. Woods, supra, 21 Cal.4th at p. 673.) The fact that a police cruiser of unknown size had to make a three-point turn instead of a U-turn does not compel the inference that the street was too narrow to keep to the right of center. Deputy Carbajal testified that he saw defendant's car as it was traveling north and the deputies were traveling south on the same street, and that he was able to notice the tint on the windows on both sides of the car. The trial court could reasonably infer that the street was a two-lane street, albeit unmarked, that it was wide enough to travel to the right of center, and that indeed, the two cars passed by one another. Substantial evidence thus supported the trial court's conclusion that it was objectively reasonable to suspect that the swerve over the center of the street violated the law.

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