PEOPLE v. PEOPLES

No. 80SA266.

616 P.2d 131 (1980)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Louis PEOPLES, Jr., Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Colorado.

September 8, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Q. Beacom, Dist. Atty., Marc P. Mishkin, Steven Bernard, Deputy Dist. Attys., Brighton, for plaintiff-appellant.

Edward L. Kirkwood, Denver, for defendant-appellee.


HODGES, Chief Justice.

This is an interlocutory appeal brought by the People challenging a ruling of the trial court suppressing photographs of the defendant's hands. We reverse.

The premises of a lumber company were burglarized. Entry was gained by scaling a barbed wire fence. At the time of the defendant's arrest for this burglary, it was noted that there were a number of small cuts on his hands which the police officers believed may have been caused by...

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