PEOPLE v. CURTIS

No. 80SA58.

627 P.2d 734 (1981)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Richard John CURTIS, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearings Denied May 18, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., Richard F. Hennessey, Deputy Atty. Gen., Mary J. Mullarkey, Sol. Gen., Kathleen M. Bowers, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for plaintiff-appellee.

Leland S. Huttner and Michael D. Brown, Denver, for defendant-appellant.

J. Gregory Walta, Colorado State Public Defender, Norman R. Mueller, Chief Appellate Deputy Public Defender, Denver, for amicus curiae Colorado State Public Defender.


QUINN, Justice.

The defendant, Richard John Curtis, appeals his conviction for extreme indifference murder in the first degree, section 18-3-102(1)(d), C.R.S. 1973 (1978 Repl. Vol. 8), resulting from the death of his female companion. He challenges the statute proscribing extreme indifference murder as unconstitutionally vague and as violative of equal protection of the laws. We conclude that the defendant's conviction is...

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