PEOPLE v. CERRONE

Nos. 91SC760, 92SC245.

854 P.2d 178 (1993)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Petitioner, v. John CERRONE, Respondent. The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Petitioner, v. Lawrence GOETZ, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied July 6, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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., Catherine P. Adkisson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for petitioners.

Neil MacFarlane, Westminster, for respondent in No. 91SC760.

David F. Vela, State Public Defender, James A. Henderson, Sp. Deputy Public Defender, Denver, for respondent in No. 92SC245.


Justice LOHR delivered the Opinion of the Court.

We granted certiorari in order to determine whether the Colorado Court of Appeals in People v. Cerrone, 829 P.2d 468 (Colo.App.1991), and People v. Goetz, No. 90CA0514 (Colo.App. Feb. 13, 1991), applied the proper legal standards in concluding under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment that there had been racial...

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