People v. Furness.

2025 CO 16. No. 24SA255. Warrantless Searches—Areas of Vehicle—Automobile Exception—Probable Cause.

April 14, 2025

In this interlocutory appeal, the People challenged an order of the Arapahoe County District Court suppressing all evidence found in the trunk of Furness’s vehicle during a warrantless search. The district court determined that the officers who searched the trunk of Furness’s car did not have probable cause to do so.

Because the supreme court concluded that the officers reasonably believed, under the totality of the circumstances, that the trunk would contain evidence of a crime, the court reversed the district court’s order and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.