Supreme Court of Colorado· 11/22/2004

People v. Syrie

Citations

101 P.3d 219
2004 Colo. LEXIS 928
2004 WL 2650131

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

holding that the People “surrender[ed]” an alternative theory of admissibility by not raising it in the trial court
“In the absence of such findings and conclusions, we will not consider arguments injecting an issue not adequately presented to the trial court.”
An issue is preserved if “the trial court [has an] adequate opportunity to make factual findings and legal conclusions.”
Where the “prosecut[ion] chose not to argue that the search . . . was incident to lawful arrest” at the suppression hearing, it “surrender[ed]” that argument and “conceded th[e] issue.”
an issue is preserved where the trial court has “adequate opportunity to make factual findings and legal conclusions on any issue that is later raised on appeal”
inevitable discovery exception cannot be met through “speculation about possible series of events”

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Judges: Hobbs

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