January 24, 2012

SandBox Comments: Aspen Daily News "Motion denied to suppress 
evidence in cocaine case"

Chad Abraham:

"A judge on Monday denied a motion to suppress evidence, including 14 grams of cocaine that police allegedly found strewn in the middle of a downtown street in 2010, in the case of a Snowmass Village man charged with distributing the drug.

But Judge Gail Nichols of Pitkin County District Court, after a nearly two-hour hearing, said she needed time to review a transcript of a recording taken by a police car video camera before ruling on whether the arrest of Justin Gordon, 33, by Aspen police officer Rick Magnuson was lawful.

Gordon was originally arrested for his alleged role in a bar brawl in October 2010, and was later charged with possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute and a bail-bond violation, both of which are felonies...."

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