Legal Opinion
People v. Tottenhoff
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided December 10, 1984No. 84SA311PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
QUINN, Justice:
The People, pursuant to C.A.R. 4.1, appeal from an order suppressing cocaine and money seized from the defendant, Kenneth B. Tottenhoff, after a police officer had stopped and purportedly arrested him for reckless driving. The district court held that the seizure of these items was unlawful because the defendant had not yet been arrested prior to the seizure. We reverse the order of suppression.
On March 14, 1984, Officer John Mitchell of the Colorado State Patrol, after clocking the defendant’s vehicle at 95 miles per hour in a 55 mile zone on Interstate Highway 25 in Weld…
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