PEOPLE v. MEREDITH

No. 88SA44.

763 P.2d 562 (1988)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Steven MEREDITH, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

October 31, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

David F. Vela, Colorado State Public Defender, Josephine D. Ewing, Deputy State Public Defender, Brighton, for defendant-appellee.


ERICKSON, Justice.

This is an interlocutory appeal by the prosecution pursuant to C.A.R. 4.1 from the trial court's order granting defendant's motion to suppress. The trial court held that a revolver and other evidence seized from an automobile driven by defendant Steven J. Meredith were the fruit of an illegal arrest. We reverse and remand with directions.

On April 17, 1987, police officers observed that the brake lights on a blue hatchback automobile traveling...

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