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Article: Colorado Supreme Court rules insurance investigators' search not subject to Fourth Amendment
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- Lawyers USA
- Article date:
- May 21, 2007
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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 ...