People in Interest of SJ

This is an interlocutory appeal brought by the prosecution from an order suppressing evidence obtained by police officers in a search of a bag belonging to S.J., a juvenile, 1 at Stapleton International Airport. C.A.R. 4.1. 2 The trial court found that the police properly approached S.J. at the airport and that S.J. voluntarily consented to a search of her bag, which disclosed a quantity of cocaine in a smokable form known as “crack.” However, relying on People v. Reyes, 174 Colo. 377, 483 P.2d 1342 (1971), the trial judge ordered the cocaine suppressed because the voluntary consent of a…