People v. Hutton

Defendant Hutton is charged with several counts of burglary, conspiracy and theft. This is an interlocutory appeal by the People from a ruling of the trial court granting defendant’s motions to suppress certain evidence seized and statements made at the time of his arrest. We reverse in part and affirm in part.

The charges stem from an alleged burglary of a University of Colorado dormitory room in Boulder, from which a television set and stereo equipment were stolen. An identified witness informed officers that three men had carried electronic equipment from the victim’s room to a Buick sedan…