(DOWNLOAD) "People V. Staton" by Colorado Supreme Court * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: People V. Staton
- Author : Colorado Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 23, 1996
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 60 KB
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The People bring this interlocutory appeal under C.A.R. 4.1 to challenge the trial court's suppression of evidence seized pursuant to an automobile search warrant issued in North Carolina. The defendant-appellee, Andrew Thorpe Staton (Staton), was charged with one count of first degree felony murder, section 18-3-102(1)(b), 8B C.R.S. (1986), and one count of first degree murder after deliberation, section 18-3-102(1)(a), 8B C.R.S. (1995 Supp.). Staton moved to suppress all evidence obtained from the automobile search based on the insufficiency of the search warrant and supporting affidavit.*fn1 The trial court granted the motion holding that the warrant failed to meet the Fourth Amendment's particularity requirement. We hold that: (1) the warrant's defects were cured by the supporting affidavit which was incorporated by reference into the warrant; (2) under the particular circumstances presented here, the validity of the search did not depend upon whether the curative affidavit accompanied the warrant at the time the search was executed; and (3) the supporting affidavit stated with sufficient particularity the property to be seized. Accordingly, we reverse the trial court's order suppressing the evidence seized from Staton's automobile.
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