PEOPLE v. QUINTANA

No. 79SA259.

601 P.2d 350 (1979)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Alex QUINTANA, Joseph Larry Quintana, Eppie Quintana a/k/a Eppy Quintana, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

October 22, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene L. Farish, Dist. Atty., Gordon J. Bosa, Deputy Dist. Atty., Conejos, for plaintiff-appellant.

J. O. Lewis, Richard J. Jacobs, Robert Pastore, Alamosa, for defendants-appellees.


DUBOFSKY, Justice.

The People bring this interlocutory appeal to challenge the trial court's order suppressing as involuntary the confession made by the defendant Joseph Larry Quintana. We affirm the suppression order.

Defendant was one of three persons accused of burglarizing a mountain home on Forbes Trinchera Ranch in Costilla County. In response to a burglar alarm, the deputy sheriff and the manager of the ranch positioned their four-wheel drive vehicle...

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