PEOPLE v. SANTISTEVAN

No. 85SA86.

715 P.2d 792 (1986)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Richard SANTISTEVAN, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

March 17, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon Neil Barclay, Dist. Atty., Third Judicial Dist., Franklin D. Azar, Asst. Dist. Atty., Trinidad, for plaintiff-appellant.

Garrett Sheldon, Walsenberg, for defendant-appellee.


DUBOFSKY, Justice.

In this interlocutory proceeding under C.A.R. 4.1, the People appeal from an order of the Las Animas County District Court suppressing certain evidence against the defendant Richard Santistevan in a prosecution for third degree burglary.1 The evidence suppressed consisted of the results of a police officer's examination of the defendant's hands by means of an ultraviolet light. The district court ruled the ultraviolet...

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