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PEOPLE v. WRIGHT

No. 85SC275.

742 P.2d 316 (1987)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Petitioner, v. Austin J. WRIGHT, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

September 8, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nolan L. Brown, Dist. Atty., E. Ronald Beeks, Deputy Dist. Atty., Golden, for petitioner.

David F. Vela, State Public Defender, Victoria J. Koury, John S. Portman, Deputy State Public Defenders, Golden, for respondent.

Charles H. Richardson, Claybourne M. Douglas, Aurora, for amicus curiae City of Aurora, Colo.

QUINN, Chief Justice.

We granted the People's petition for certiorari to review a judgment of the District Court of Jefferson County, which affirmed a county court dismissal of state misdemeanor and misdemeanor traffic offense charges on the grounds that the compulsory joinder bar of section 18-1-408(2), 8B C.R.S. (1986), precluded prosecution of the state offenses which were different from but arose out of the same criminal episode as a municipal ordinance violation...

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