People v. Lewis

QUINN, Justice.

The People in this interlocutory appeal challenge a suppression ruling of the district court. The court, after entertaining the defendant’s motion to reconsider a prior denial of his motion to suppress by another district judge, suppressed approximately one-half pound of cocaine seized by police officers from the defendant’s automobile during a temporary detention of the defendant for suspected drug trafficking. The court determined that the officers’ initial actions in contacting the defendant led him to reasonably believe that he was not free to leave the scene, and on this…