PEOPLE v. JONES

Nos. 80SA486, 80SA495.

627 P.2d 254 (1981)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Willie Albert JONES, Defendant-Appellant. The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Kenneth G. GARCIA, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Colorado.

April 20, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., Richard F. Hennessey, Deputy Atty. Gen., Mary J. Mullarkey, Sol. Gen., Laura E. Udis, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for plaintiff-appellee.

J. Gregory Walta, Colorado State Public Defender, Michael Heher, Deputy State Public Defender, Denver, for defendants-appellants.


HODGES, Chief Justice.

The defendants-appellants in both of these cases appealed a trial court's denial of motions for reduction of sentence. In both cases, only questions of law, which are precisely the same, are presented. We have therefore consolidated the cases for purposes of this opinion.

Both defendants argue that each is entitled to be resentenced under Colorado's new presumptive sentencing scheme. Specifically, each argues that the 1977 version of...

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