PEOPLE v. COOPER

Nos. 00SC474, 00SC499, 00SC587 and 00SC588.

27 P.3d 348 (2001)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Petitioner, v. David COOPER, Respondent. The People of the State of Colorado, Petitioner, v. Joseph A. Rula, Respondent. The People of the State of Colorado, Petitioner, v. Franklin R. Joshua, Respondent. The People of the State of Colorado, Petitioner, v. Alfred Rodriguez, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

June 25, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ken Salazar, Attorney General, John J. Krause, First Assistant Attorney General, Appellate Division, Criminal Justice Section, Denver, CO, Attorneys for Petitioner.

David S. Kaplan, Colorado State Public Defender, Katherine Brien, Deputy State Public Defender, Jonathan D. Rosen, Denver, CO, Attorneys for Respondent.

Joseph A. Rula, Respondent, pro se.


Justice MARTINEZ delivered the Opinion of the Court.

These four cases, which we have consolidated here, present a question of the extension of the issue we resolved in Martin v. People, 27 P.3d 846 (2001). We granted certiorari in all four of these cases to determine whether the court of appeals correctly concluded that the statutory scheme and legislative intent require that parole for sex offenders convicted of offenses committed...

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