Legal Opinion
People v. DeBaca
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided April 27, 1987No. 86SA383PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOHR, Justice.
The People bring this interlocutory appeal under C.A.R. 4.1 from an order of the Weld County District Court suppressing statements made by the defendant, Mary DeBaca, to a police officer while the defendant was hospitalized. The district court found that the prosecution had not established by a preponderance of the evidence that the statements had been made voluntarily, because it had presented no evidence concerning the extent of the defendant’s injuries, whether she was on medication, or the effect that any such medication may have had on her ability to act voluntarily. We…
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