PEOPLE v. SERRAVO

No. 90SC322.

823 P.2d 128 (1992)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Petitioner, v. Robert Pasqual SERRAVO, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

January 13, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert R. Gallagher, Jr., Dist. Atty., Eighteenth Judicial Dist., James C. Sell, Chief Deputy Dist. Atty., Englewood, for petitioner.

Fogel, Keating & Wagner, P.C., Steven R. Polidori, Betty Ann Bass, for respondent.


Justice QUINN delivered the Opinion of the Court.

We granted certiorari to review the decision of the court of appeals in People v. Serravo, 797 P.2d 782 (Colo.App.1990), in order to determine the meaning of the phrase "incapable of distinguishing right from wrong" in Colorado's statutory definition of insanity codified at section 16-8-101(1), 8A C.R.S. (1986). The trial court, in the insanity phase of a criminal prosecution...

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