PEOPLE v. EAKINS

No. 28365.

587 P.2d 790 (1978)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Scott Edward EAKINS, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

December 11, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nolan L. Brown, Dist. Atty., Frederick B. Skillern, Deputy Dist. Atty., Golden, for plaintiff-appellant.

Normando R. Pacheco, Denver, for defendant-appellee.


PRINGLE, Justice.

The People bring this interlocutory appeal to challenge a ruling of the district court suppressing certain evidence on the grounds that it was seized in violation of the defendant's Fourth Amendment rights. We affirm.

These facts were elicited from testimony at the suppression hearing. On March 24, 1977, Officer Miller of the Arvada Police Department stopped a pickup truck which was being driven in a "strange manner" on the grassy area in...

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