State v. Quevedo

STEWART, Associate Chief Justice:

On the evening of December 5, 1982, two robberies were committed within minutes of each other in a Salt Lake City neighborhood. A witness saw a vehicle leave the scene of one robbery and notified the police. From that description, a police officer spotted the vehicle. Several police vehicles chased the car to a dead-end alley where the car crashed. Three persons emerged, two of whom were apprehended and later convicted of the robberies. The third person, the driver, fled the scene and disappeared into a nearby apartment house. The officers immediately searched…