PEOPLE v. L.A.

No. 79SA520.

609 P.2d 116 (1980)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. L. A., Jr., Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

March 31, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Russel, Dist. Atty., Robert B. Harward, Deputy Dist. Atty., Colorado Springs, for plaintiff-appellant.

Simons & Iuppa, Barney Iuppa, Jr., Colorado Springs, for defendant-appellee.


LOHR, Justice.

In this interlocutory appeal in a juvenile delinquency proceeding, the People challenge the trial court's order suppressing incriminating statements made to the police by the respondent, L.A., Jr. We reverse.

While investigating a residential burglary, a police officer was informed that the respondent and another child had been seen lingering in the front yard of the house and ringing the doorbell prior to the burglary. Eleven days after the...

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