RICKSTREW v. PEOPLE

Nos. 90SC617, 90SC616.

822 P.2d 505 (1991)

Brent RICKSTREW, Petitioner, v. The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Respondent. Antonino GONZALES, Petitioner, v. The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied January 13, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David F. Vela, Colorado State Public Defender, Jenine Jensen, Joan E. Mounteer, Deputy State Public Defenders, Denver, for petitioners.

Gale A. Norton, Atty. Gen., Raymond T. Slaughter, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Timothy M. Tymkovich, Sol. Gen., John Daniel Dailey, Deputy Atty. Gen., Robert Mark Russel, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for respondent.


Justice MULLARKEY delivered the Opinion of the Court.

In these cases, the defendants claim that a section of Colorado's vehicular homicide statute, prior to its amendment in 1989, was vague and therefore void under the due process clauses of the Colorado and United States Constitutions. Gonzales failed to preserve the void for vagueness issue at trial; we therefore dismiss the writ of certiorari as improvidently granted in

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