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  • There is no 'pee' in public -- State appeals court rules act is illegal

    03/08/2006 3:07:42 PM PST · by SmithL · 94 replies · 1,533+ views
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 3/8/6 | Bob Egelko
    SAN FRANCISCO -- It's a crime in California to urinate in a public place, a state appeals court ruled today. The case before the court came from Berkeley, where a police officer detained a man urinating in the parking lot of a closed restaurant one Sunday morning in January 2003. The officer searched David McDonald and found drugs. McDonald was charged with narcotics possession. But if he hadn't been committing a crime in the first place -- urinating in the open -- the search would have been illegal and the found drugs couldn't be used against him. To deal with...