PEOPLE v. CONNELLY

No. 84SA270.

702 P.2d 722 (1985)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Francis Barry CONNELLY, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

July 8, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman S. Early, Jr., Dist. Atty., O. Otto Moore, Asst. Dist. Atty., Brooke Wunnicke, Chief Appellate Deputy Dist. Atty., Denver, for plaintiff-appellant.

David F. Vela, Colorado State Public Defender, Robin Desmond, Deputy State Public Defender, Abelardo P. Bernal, Deputy State Public Defender, Denver, for defendant-appellee.


QUINN, Chief Justice.

The People, pursuant to C.A.R. 4.1, challenge a ruling of the district court suppressing inculpatory statements made by the defendant and any evidence that might have been derived from those statements. The district court ruled that the defendant was suffering from a severe mental disorder which rendered his statements involuntary and that the prosecution had not met its burden of proving an effective waiver of the defendant's Miranda...

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