PEOPLE v. ESPARZA

No. 11SA234.

272 P.3d 367 (2012)

2012 CO 22

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellant v. Heather L. ESPARZA, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

March 26, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth A. Oldham , District Attorney, Fourteenth Judicial District, Jon F. Pfeifer , Chief Deputy, Craig, Colorado, Attorneys for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Douglas K. Wilson , Public Defender, Emily Wickham , Deputy Public Defender, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, Attorneys for Defendant-Appellee.


Justice COATS delivered the Opinion of the Court.

¶ 1 The People brought an interlocutory appeal pursuant to section 16-12-102(2), C.R.S. (2011), and C.A.R. 4.1, assigning error to the district court's suppression of contraband seized from the defendant's vehicle on two separate occasions. In each case, after the defendant was arrested for driving under suspension, a police narcotics detection canine was brought to the scene and led around her truck, which had...

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