The People of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellant v. Stephanie Spring Chamberlain, Defendant-Appellee

Summary

The court affirmed suppression of drugs and paraphernalia found in the defendant's vehicle after her arrest for false reporting. Because she was handcuffed and secured in a patrol car when officers searched the vehicle, and because the officers already possessed the documents relevant to the false-reporting arrest, the search was not justified under the vehicle-search exception for searches incident to arrest. Justice Eid, dissenting, would have applied the good-faith exception based on preexisting precedent.