Article: Colorado Supreme Court rules insurance investigators' search not subject to Fourth Amendment

Evidence obtained by insurance investigators after an alleged arson needn't be suppressed because the investigators were not subject to the Fourth Amendment, the Colorado Supreme Court has ruled in reversing a suppression order.

The defendant owned a liquor store that was damaged in a fire. Two insurance investigators concluded that the fire had multiple points of origin, signifying arson as the cause. They returned to the building several times to take photographs, measurements and samples.

The defendant was charged with two counts of felony arson and then moved to suppress the evidence obtained by the insurance investigators.

He argued that the investigators acted as agents of the ...

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