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PEOPLE v. INMAN

No. 88SA218.

765 P.2d 577 (1988)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Patricia Jean INMAN, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

December 12, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dean J. Johnson, Dist. Atty., Cortez, for plaintiff-appellant.

T. Curtis Bobbitt, Deputy State Public Defender, Durango, for defendant-appellee.

QUINN, Chief Justice.

In this interlocutory appeal the People challenge an order suppressing a small packet of cocaine seized from a purse belonging to the defendant, Patricia J. Inman, during an inventory search performed at a county jail in the course of booking the defendant for drunk driving. We conclude that the district court applied an incorrect legal standard with respect to the scope of a permissible inventory search upon arrest, and we accordingly reverse...

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