Legal Opinion
People v. Upshur
Colorado Court of Appeals
Decided January 25, 1996No. 94CA0551PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Judge DAVIDSON.
Defendant, James L. Upshur, appeals from the judgment of conviction entered on a jury verdict finding him guilty of violating the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act (COCCA); conspiracy to violate COCCA; theft; and second degree forgery. The single issue raised in this appeal is the validity of the warrantless search of a storage locker. We affirm.
In 1989, self-storage businesses in Colorado Springs, including Astrozon Self-Storage (Astrozon), were experiencing a series of burglaries and thefts of items from self-storage lockers. On August 28, based upon reports of…
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