People v. Richards

This is an appeal by the District Attorney of the Twentieth Judicial District from an order of the district court granting defendant’s motion to suppress certain statements which defendant made to the police following his arrest. We affirm the ruling of the district court.

At the suppression hearing, Officer Douglas Rushing of the Grand Junction Police Department testified that he had conducted an investigation concerning the rape of a twelve-year-old girl. On June 28, 1976, the girl and her seven-year-old brother were given a ride by a stranger and taken to the “canal” where she was forced to…