Tate v. People

1 Tate sought review of the judgment of the District Court in and for the Eighteenth Judicial District in Tate v. People, 09CV2334, reversing a suppression order of the Arapahoe County Court. In a prosecution of Tate for Driving Under the Influence, the trial court found that he had been stopped without reasonable articulable suspicion the moment a patrol car parked behind him, hemming in his car, even though he was asleep and unaware of the officer at the time. On interlocutory appeal by the People, the district court concluded that the earliest moment at which the defendant could have been…