The People of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellant v. Ronnie Lee Walters, Defendant, Appellee

Summary

The court reversed the suppression of methamphetamine and the defendant's subsequent statements. It held that the officer's approach to the defendant in a parked vehicle, questioning, pat-down request, and request to search the vehicle constituted a consensual encounter rather than an investigatory stop, and that the defendant voluntarily consented to the search. Because the search was lawful, the statements were not fruits of an unlawful search.