PEOPLE v. CUMMINGS

No. 85SA39.

706 P.2d 766 (1985)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Pete James CUMMINGS, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Colorado.

September 23, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James F. Smith, Dist. Atty., Seventeenth Judicial Dist., Steven L. Bernard, Chief Trial Deputy Dist. Atty., Brighton, for plaintiff-appellant.

David F. Vela, Colorado State Public Defender, Ronald M. Aal, Deputy State Public Defender, Brighton, for defendant-appellee.


DUBOFSKY, Justice.

In this interlocutory appeal under C.A.R. 4.1, the People assert that the Adams County District Court erred in suppressing as involuntary certain statements made by the defendant and in suppressing certain evidence found during the execution of search warrants. We reverse.

The bodies of a man and a woman, apparently murder victims, were found in a parked Toyota Corolla on September 4, 1984. Both victims had been shot and stabbed numerous...

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