BROWN v. DISTRICT COURT, ETC.

No. 27558.

569 P.2d 1390 (1977)

Nolan L. BROWN, District Attorney In and For the First Judicial District, County of Jefferson, State of Colorado, Petitioner, v. The DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR the FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, State of Colorado, and the Honorable George G. Priest, one of the Judges thereof, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

September 19, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nolan L. Brown, Dist. Atty., Robert M. Kelly, Deputy Dist. Atty., Golden, for petitioner.

Donald A. Brenner, Denver, for respondents.


HODGES, Justice.

In this original proceeding, the district attorney seeks relief in the nature of prohibition against an order of the respondent district court. We ordered respondent district court to show cause why its order granting defendant Gary Lee Swingle a preliminary hearing, on a count seeking a mandatory sentence for violent crime, should not be quashed. The respondent has answered. We hold that this defendant is not entitled to a preliminary hearing on...

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