People v. S.M.D.

In this interlocutory appeal under C.A.R. 4.1, 1 the prosecution seeks reversal of an order of the Adams County District Court, granting the motion of S.M.D., a juvenile defendant, to suppress a statement he made to the investigating officers during a custodial interrogation. S.M.D. was taken into custody in connection with a murder. Several officers of the Thornton Police Department interrogated S.M.D. in the presence of B.B., who had been appointed as his guardian ad litem in a juvenile dependency and neglect proceeding, unrelated to the present action. Holding that the custodial…