People v. Greathouse

This is an interlocutory appeal by a defendant charged with several crimes of theft. He seeks review of a ruling of the trial court which partially denied a motion to suppress evidence.

An informant advised the chief of police of Aspen, Colorado, that she had seen items of furniture and other articles in the defendant’s apartment and that they had recently been moved into the apartment. She described the articles, and her descriptions were similar to those of items recently reported stolen in Pitkin County.

An employee of the police department was present at the time the informant conferred…