People v. Meeks

This interlocutory appeal was taken by the district attorney after the trial court granted the defendant’s motion to suppress. We reverse.

The defendant is charged with second-degree burglary 1 and theft. 2 The charges against the defendant are based on evidence which was seized from the trunk of the defendant’s automobile.

On September 25, 1976, a police radio dispatch directed a police officer to the 1900 block on Wabash in Denver to investigate a report that a person had passed out in an automobile. When the officer arrived at the scene, he observed a 1970 Plymouth bearing a temporary…