Legal Opinion
People v. Thomas
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided March 28, 1983No. 82SA401PublishedCited by 100 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
QUINN, Justice.
The People in this interlocutory appeal challenge the ruling of the district court suppressing six colored balloons containing cocaine seized during a police chase of the defendant. The district court concluded that the officers’ chase of the defendant was not supported by either probable cause or reasonable suspicion and, therefore, the seizure was constitutionally infirm. See U.S. Const. Amends. IV and XIV; Colo. Const. Art. II, Sec. 7. We affirm the suppression ruling.
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The defendant is charged in the Denver District Court with unlawful possession of a schedule II controlled…
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