Legal Opinion

People v. Tooker

Supreme Court of Colorado

Decided November 13, 1979No. 79SA232PublishedCited by 19 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Groves

This is an interlocutory appeal from an order of suppression of evidence by the Fremont County district court. The district court found that there was no probable cause for the warrantless arrest of defendantappellee, that the circumstances of the arrest did not qualify it as a “Stone area” stop,1 and that the items seized during the defendant’s arrest were not the product of inadvertent observation by an officer in pursuit of a lawful duty, but were the product of an illegal arrest and search. We affirm.

On November 24, 1978 about 3:15 a.m. the Fremont County Sheriffs office in Canon City…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Wong Sun v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  2. Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
  3. Beck v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
  4. Weeks v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
  5. Stone v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1971

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3Cited by19 opinions

  1. People v. HazelhurstSupreme Court of Colorado · 1983
  2. People v. SchreyerSupreme Court of Colorado · 1982
  3. People v. TottenhoffSupreme Court of Colorado · 1984
  4. People v. RoybalSupreme Court of Colorado · 1982
  5. State v. CootzIdaho Court of Appeals · 1986

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