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PEOPLE v. THOMAS

No. 82SA401.

660 P.2d 1272 (1983)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Joseph "Cherokee" THOMAS, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

March 28, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dale Tooley, Dist. Atty., O. Otto Moore, Asst. Dist. Atty., Brooke Wunnicke, Chief Appellate Deputy Dist. Atty., Denver, for plaintiff-appellant.

Lozow & Lozow, Gary Lozow, Denver, for defendant-appellee.

QUINN, Justice.

The People in this interlocutory appeal challenge the ruling of the district court suppressing six colored balloons containing cocaine seized during a police chase of the defendant. The district court concluded that the officers' chase of the defendant was not supported by either probable cause or reasonable suspicion and, therefore, the seizure was constitutionally infirm. See U.S. Const. Amends. IV and XIV; Colo. Const. Art. II, Sec...

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