PEOPLE v. HARRIS

No. 83CA0147.

703 P.2d 667 (1985)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jerry Rodean HARRIS, Defendant-Appellant.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. II.

Rehearing Denied May 30, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Duane Woodard, Atty. Gen., Charles B. Howe, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Richard H. Forman, Sol. Gen., John Milton Hutchins, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for plaintiff-appellee.

David F. Vela, Colorado State Public Defender, Douglas D. Barnes, Deputy State Public Defender, Denver, for defendant-appellant.


KELLY, Judge.

Defendant, Jerry Harris, appeals his conviction of vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of an accident, arguing that the trial court erred in failing to suppress statements and in failing to instruct the jury on a lesser included offense. We reverse.

After drinking intoxicants at a bar one evening, David Flores asked defendant Harris for a ride home. Harris drove Flores to an isolated road north of Fort Collins where he asked to be dropped...

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