People v. Quick

JUSTICE COATS delivered the Opinion of the Court.

¶ 1 The People brought an interlocutory appeal, as authorized by section 16-12-102(2), C.R.S. (2017), and C.A.R. 4.1, from an order of the district court granting Quick's motion to suppress a gun found during an inventory search of his car. Although the district court initially denied the motion, upon reconsideration in light of the court of appeals' opinion in People v. Brown , 2016 COA 150 , 417 P.3d 868 , it found that where Quick was merely cited, and not actually arrested, for driving with a suspended license, and where the only…