People v. Interest of A.W.

delivered the- Opinion of the Court.

In this interlocutory appeal brought pursuant to C.A.R. 4.1(a) and section 16 — 15— 102(11), 6 C.R.S. (1998), the People urge us to overturn a trial court order suppressing videotaped statements made by the defendant during the initial portion of a station-house interview from use in their ease-in-chief. Although the People concede that the latter portions of this interview should be suppressed, they further challenge the validity of the trial court’s suppression of the defendant’s statements therein for impeachment purposes. Upon review of the trial…