PEOPLE v. RATCLIFF

No. 88SA351.

778 P.2d 1371 (1989)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Philander Knox RATCLIFF, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

September 18, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barney Iuppa, Dist. Atty., and Gordon R. Denison, Deputy Dist. Atty., Colorado Springs, for plaintiff-appellant.

Michael Morris, Colorado Springs, for defendant-appellee.


Chief Justice QUINN delivered the Opinion of the Court.

In this interlocutory appeal the People challenge a ruling of the district court suppressing a plastic vial containing cocaine, which a police officer took from the defendant during a pat-down search of his person, and also other physical and verbal evidence obtained subsequent to the seizure of the cocaine. The district court ruled that there was not probable cause to arrest the defendant and that, even though...

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