PEOPLE v. LEWIS

No. 82SA565.

659 P.2d 676 (1983)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John P. LEWIS, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

February 28, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander M. Hunter, Dist. Atty., Ann B. Stone, Deputy Dist. Atty., Boulder, for plaintiff-appellant.

Miller, Gray, Hale & Truman, P.C., William R. Gray, Boulder, for defendant-appellee.


QUINN, Justice.

The People in this interlocutory appeal challenge a suppression ruling of the district court. The court, after entertaining the defendant's motion to reconsider a prior denial of his motion to suppress by another district judge, suppressed approximately one-half pound of cocaine seized by police officers from the defendant's automobile during a temporary detention of the defendant for suspected drug trafficking. The court determined that the officers...

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