People v. Mason

{1 The People filed an interlocutory appeal pursuant to section 16-12-102(2), C.R.S. (2012), and C.A.R. 4.1, challenging the trial court's suppression of drugs discovered in the defendant's pick-up truck. Grounds for the search came from the alert of a narcotics detection canine led around the vehicle. Although the district court upheld the initial traffic stop, it found that the defendant was illegally detained at the time of the dog sniff because the purpose for the initial stop of his vehicle had already been accomplished and no other reasonable suspicion existed to support further…