PEOPLE v. TRUSTY

No. 26142.

516 P.2d 423 (1973)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Theodore A. TRUSTY, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

December 3, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. L. Herrmann, Jr., Dist. Atty., Michael A. Curran, Chief Deputy Dist. Atty., Henry Nieto, Deputy Dist. Atty., Golden, for plaintiff-appellant.

Rollie R. Rogers, Colo. State Public Defender, J. D. MacFarlane, Chief Deputy State Public Defender, Denver, William V. Hodges, III, Deputy State Public Defender, Golden, for defendant-appellee.


LEE, Justice.

This is an interlocutory appeal by the district attorney, seeking to reverse an order of the Jefferson County district court suppressing evidence seized during an inventory search of an automobile. We reverse.

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