EVIDENCE FROM TRAFFIC STOP OF TEEN NOT TOSSED

A superior Court judge Thursday denied a motion to quash evidence -
including, purportedly, a marijuana pipe and fraudulent identification card
- - obtained in the traffic stop of Corona del Mar High senior Ryan Huntsman.

Huntsman, 18, was suspended and ordered transferred to another school
under a "zero tolerance" drug policy after district officials received
a copy of a police report detailing a Feb. 18 traffic stop near the school.

Judge Tully H. Seymour, filling in for Presiding Judge Robert E. Thomas,
said Thomas should decide whether attorneys for the Newport-Mesa School
Unified District can present the evidence at a hearing Tuesday.

"This is basically Judge Thomas' case," Seymour said.

Police say a plastic bag with trace amounts of marijuana was found, along
with the pipe and identification card, after Huntsman was stopped for
playing his stereo too loud.

Huntsman, a three-year golf team veteran who plans to attend college, was
reinstated - and cheered on by fellow students - pending a court ruling.

Attorney David Shores, representing Huntsman, said he will challenge the
district's decision on two points - that the police search was
"constitutionally suspicious" and that district officials made a hasty
decision based on an off-campus incident.