PEOPLE v. BISCHOFBERGER

No. 85SA424.

724 P.2d 660 (1986)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Robert Michael BISCHOFBERGER, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

September 2, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert R. Gallagher, Jr., Dist. Atty., Catherine P. Adkisson, Chief Deputy Dist. Atty., Littleton, for plaintiff-appellant.

Bruce P. Fierst, P.C., Bruce P. Fierst, Denver, for defendant-appellee.


QUINN, Chief Justice.

The People, pursuant to C.A.R. 4.1, challenge a ruling of the district court suppressing cocaine located in a container seized during a search incident to the arrest of the defendant, Robert Michael Bischofberger. The district court, concluding that the defendant had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the container in which the cocaine was encased, held that the seizure of the cocaine from the defendant's person and the examination of its...

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