People v. Shriver

This is an interlocutory appeal from an order granting defendant’s motion to suppress the introduction of marijuana in evidence. We reverse.

On the evening of March 26, 1974, agent Hutchins of the Lakewood Department of Public Safety was on routine patrol. Between 8:00 and 8:30 p.m. he drove into a parking lot at the rear of a bowling alley. It was dark. He noticed that two persons were sitting in a white van which was parked in the lot. He walked to the driver’s side of the van and asked the two men sitting inside to produce their drivers’ licenses, which they did. Defendant was one of the…