PEOPLE v. RUEDA

No. 82SA201.

649 P.2d 1106 (1982)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Nick RUEDA, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

August 30, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Q. Beacom, Dist. Atty., Steven L. Bernard, Chief Trial Deputy Dist. Atty., Brighton, for plaintiff-appellant.

Dill & Dill, P. C., Robert A. Dill, Denver, for defendant-appellee.


ERICKSON, Justice.

This is an interlocutory appeal from a ruling by the Adams County District Court which suppressed evidence obtained in a narcotics investigation because the information given by two citizen-informants did not establish probable cause to arrest and search the defendant. We reverse the suppression ruling.

I.

On July 17, 1981, Don Cochell, a maintenance employee at the North Valley Shopping Mall in Thorton, Colorado, observed two...

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