People v. Guerin

The majority concludes that in the absence of exigent circumstances the police were not justified in entering the Tire King without a warrant and seizing three bindles *1072of cocaine and a baggie of marijuana. In doing so, it extends the exigent circumstances exception developed in People v. Boorem, 184 Colo. 233, 519 P.2d 939 (1974), to business premises without discussing whether persons enjoy the same reasonable expectation of privacy at work as they do at home. I believe that the prosecution has carried its heavy burden of demonstrating exigent circumstances under the Boorem test, and…