PEOPLE v. SAAVEDRA-RODRIGUEZ

No. 97SC543.

971 P.2d 223 (1998)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Petitioner, v. Patricio SAAVEDRA-RODRIGUEZ, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied January 11, 1999.

As Modified February 11, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gale A. Norton, Attorney General, Martha Phillips Allbright, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Richard A. Westfall, Solicitor General, John Daniel Dailey, Deputy Attorney General, Robert Mark Russel, First Assistant Attorney General, Catherine P. Adkisson, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Enforcement Section, Denver, for Petitioner.

David F. Vela, Colorado State Public Defender, Joan E. Mounteer, Deputy State Public Defender, Denver, for Respondent.


Justice MARTINEZ delivered the Opinion of the Court.

We granted certiorari to review the court of appeals' ruling that a defendant on trial for homicide should have been allowed to present evidence of inadequate medical treatment as the intervening cause of the victim's death. See People v. Saavedra-Rodriguez, 949 P.2d 86, 88 (Colo.App.1997). The trial court determined that the defendant had not offered sufficient evidence...

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