MORGAN v. PEOPLE

No. 79SC367.

624 P.2d 1331 (1981)

Roy Alan MORGAN, Petitioner, v. The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

March 9, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Gregory Walta, Colorado State Public Defender, Steven H. Denman, Cynthia C. Cederberg, Deputy State Public Defenders, Denver, for petitioner.

J. D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., Richard F. Hennessey, Deputy Atty. Gen., Mary J. Mullarkey, Sol. Gen., Susan P. Mele-Sernovitz, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for Respondent.


HODGES, Chief Justice.

Defendant Roy Alan Morgan was convicted by a jury of a violation of section 18-8-203, C.R.S.1973, introducing contraband in the first-degree. The defendant appealed contending that the trial court erred in denying his challenge of a prospective juror for cause. The court of appeals in an unpublished opinion affirmed the conviction. We granted certiorari, and now reverse the judgment of the court of appeals.

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