PEOPLE v. THOMPSON

No. 87SA471.

770 P.2d 1282 (1989)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Donald Eugene THOMPSON, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

April 17, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Ralph B. Rhodes, Denver, for defendant-appellee.


KIRSHBAUM, Justice.

The People have filed this interlocutory appeal pursuant to C.A.R. 4.1 seeking review of the trial court's order granting a motion filed by the defendant, Donald Eugene Thompson, to suppress evidence of contraband seized from Thompson's residence.1 The People argue that in the circumstances of this case exigent circumstances justified a decision by police officials to enter and search a private residence without first...

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