People v. Quintana

The People bring this interlocutory appeal to challenge the trial court’s order suppressing as involuntary the confession made by the defendant Joseph Larry Quintana. We affirm the suppression order.

Defendant was one of three persons accused of burglarizing a mountain home on Forbes Trinchera Ranch in Costilla County. In response to a burglar alarm, the deputy sheriff and the manager of the ranch positioned their four-wheel drive vehicle across a snow-covered road leading from the home. A pickup truck, allegedly driven by defendant’s uncle, swung around the roadblock and someone in the truck…