PEOPLE EX REL. FARINA v. DISTRICT COURT

No. 27022.

553 P.2d 394 (1976)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado ex rel. Terrance L. FARINA, District Attorney in and for the Twenty-First Judicial District, State of Colorado, Petitioner, v. The DISTRICT COURT OF the TWENTY-FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT and the Honorable William M. Ela, a judge thereof, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

July 6, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terrance L. Farina, Dist. Atty. John A. Achziger, Deputy Dist. Atty., Grand Junction, for petitioner.

Williams, Turner & Holmes, J. D. Snodgrass, Grand Junction, for respondents.


GROVES, Justice.

This is an original proceeding in which the district attorney for the Twenty-first Judicial District, Terrance L. Farina, has asked this court to rule that the district court for that judicial district acted in excess of its authority in vacating a release hearing scheduled in that court. The court based its decision to vacate on the doctrine of res judicata. We issued a rule to show cause by reason of the importance of the issue raised. We...

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