PEOPLE v. RIVERA

No. 24760.

497 P.2d 990 (1972)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Joseph Alexander RIVERA and Fred Lee Trujillo, Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

June 5, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Duke W. Dunbar, Atty. Gen., John P. Moore, Deputy Atty. Gen., Richard G. McManus, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for plaintiff-appellee.

Rollie R. Rogers, Colorado State Public Defender, J. D. MacFarlane, Chief Deputy State Public Defender, Kenneth J. Russell, Deputy Public Defender, Denver, for defendants-appellants.


ERICKSON, Justice.

Defendants-Appellants, together with Joe Robert Allary, were charged with aggravated robbery, assault with intent to murder, and conspiracy to commit each of these crimes. The charges arose out of the robbery of a bar in which the bartender and a patron were assaulted and seriously injured. Because of the nature of the prosecution's case against Allary, the defendants moved for a severance and were granted a separate trial. At the trial, Allary...

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