PEOPLE v. RISTER

No. 89SC212.

803 P.2d 483 (1990)

PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Petitioner, v. Teddy Ralph RISTER, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied January 28, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stuart A. VanMeveren, Dist. Atty., Loren B. Schall, Asst. Dist. Atty., Daniel J. Kaup, Deputy Dist. Atty., Fort Collins, for petitioner.

David F. Vela, State Public Defender, William S. Schurman, Deputy State Public Defender, Denver, for respondent.

Thomas T. Crumpacker, Carbondale, Bradley H. Dickerson, Denver, for amici curiae The American Civ. Liberties Union Foundation of Colorado and Nat. Lawyers Guild, Colorado Chapter.

Pozner, Hutt, Gilman & Kaplan, Abraham V. Hutt, Denver, for amici curiae The Colorado Crim. Defense Bar, Nat. Ass'n of Crim. Defense Lawyers and Colorado Trial Lawyers Ass'n.


Chief Justice ROVIRA delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This certiorari1 proceeding presents the question whether the Colorado State Patrol's brief stop of the defendant, Teddy Ralph Rister, while it was operating a sobriety checkpoint on a county highway violates the fourth and fourteenth amendments to the United States Constitution and article II, section 7, of the Colorado Constitution. The Jackson County District Court affirmed the...

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