Legal Opinion

People v. Waits

Supreme Court of Colorado

Decided June 26, 1978No. 27890Published

1Opinion of the Court

580 P.2d 391 (1978)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellant,

v.

Jimmy Lee WAITS, Defendant-Appellee.

No. 27890.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

June 26, 1978.

Dale Tooley, Dist. Atty., Brooke Wunnicke, Chief Appellate Deputy Dist. Atty., Denver, for plaintiff-appellant.

Lozow & Lozow, Jon P. Lozow, Denver, for defendant-appellee.

CARRIGAN, Justice.

The People brought this interlocutory appeal after the trial court suppressed certain stolen property and a pair of pliers discovered on the floor of the appellee's automobile and beneath its seat. We reverse the suppression ruling and…

Also in this document: Dissent.

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Coolidge v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  2. Stone v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1971
  3. State v. CookArizona Supreme Court · 1977
  4. United States v. Jacques Berenguer, A/K/A Guy SebbaneCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1977
  5. Alire v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1965

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