PEOPLE v. WILLIAMS

No. 80SA88.

613 P.2d 879 (1980)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Thomas Ray WILLIAMS, Patrick Kevin Sullivan, James Salnajs, and Gary Don Jenkins, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

June 30, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nolan L. Brown, Dist. Atty., Michael B. Tully, Senior Deputy Dist. Atty., Golden, for plaintiff-appellant.

E. Michael Canges, Denver, for defendant-appellee Williams.

Walter Gerash, Denver, for defendant-appellee Sullivan.

Marshall Quiat, Denver, for defendant-appellee Salnajs.

Joseph Saint-Veltri and Emerson B. Semple, Denver, for defendant-appellee Jenkins.


LOHR, Justice.

The defendants have been charged with possessing a narcotic drug and with selling and dispensing a narcotic drug.1 In this interlocutory appeal,2 the People challenge the district court's order granting the defendants' motions to suppress cocaine and other physical evidence relating to those charges. We reverse.

The facts are uncontroverted. On March 28, 1979, and April 18, 1979, two...

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