PEOPLE v. DERRERA

No. 76-225.

570 P.2d 558 (1977)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jerry Lee DERRERA, Defendant-Appellant.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Division I.

September 22, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., Jean E. Dubofsky, Deputy Atty. Gen., Edward G. Donovan, Sol. Gen., Robert C. Lehnert, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for plaintiff-appellee.

Rogers & Dickerson, Richard W. Dickerson, Boulder, for defendant-appellant.


SMITH, Judge.

Defendant, Jerry Lee Derrera, appeals his conviction of second-degree burglary on the ground that the trial court erred in refusing to suppress evidence which he claims was unlawfully seized following an illegal warrantless arrest. We affirm.

The facts surrounding the arrest and the seizure of the evidence in question are essentially as follows: At the time of his arrest, defendant was a passenger in the car of Charles Rudy Lamorie, who was stopped...

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