PEOPLE v. CHAVES

No. 93SA113.

855 P.2d 852 (1993)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Petitioner, v. Leonel Alcides Gerardo CHAVES, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

July 19, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter F. Michaelson, Dist. Atty., Fifth Judicial Dist., Timothy A. Meinert, Chief Deputy Dist. Atty., Eagle, for petitioner.

Fahrenholtz & Riva, P.C., James E. Fahrenholtz, Avon, for respondent.


Justice MULLARKEY delivered the Opinion of the Court.

The district attorney brings this interlocutory appeal, pursuant to C.A.R. 4.1 and section 16-12-102(2), 8A C.R.S. (1992 Supp.), in order to challenge the district court's suppression of cocaine discovered inside a folded dollar bill pursuant to an inventory search conducted by the police after taking the intoxicated defendant, Leonel Alcides Gerardo Chaves, into protective custody. The trial court concluded that...

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