PEOPLE v. POLICE

No. 81CA0392.

651 P.2d 430 (1982)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Tommy L. POLICE, Defendant-Appellant.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. II.

Rehearing Denied June 10, 1982.

Certiorari Denied September 13, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., Richard F. Hennessey, Deputy Atty. Gen., Mary J. Mullarkey, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Clement P. Engle, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for plaintiff-appellee.

Larry Steven Pozner, P. C., Larry Steven Pozner, Denver, for defendant-appellant.


PIERCE, Judge.

Defendant was convicted of the offense of reckless manslaughter under § 18-3-104(1)(a), C.R.S.1973 (1978 Repl. Vol. 8). His sole allegation of error on appeal is that statements that he made to the father of his victim while in jail should have been excluded from testimony on the ground of the statutory clergyman-penitent privilege. We affirm.

Evidence, other than that contained in the contested confession, established that defendant shot...

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