PEOPLE v. LEE

Supreme Court Case No. 19SC749.

476 P.3d 351 (2020)

2020 CO 81

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Petitioner, v. Dearies Deshonne Austin LEE, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Colorado.

November 23, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Attorneys for Petitioner: George H. Brauchler , District Attorney, Eighteenth Judicial District Jacob Edson , Chief Deputy District Attorney Centennial, Colorado.

Attorneys for Respondent: Megan A. Ring , Public Defender Jessica Sommer , Deputy Public Defender Denver, Colorado.

JUSTICE SAMOUR dissents and CHIEF JUSTICE COATS and JUSTICE BOATRIGHT join in the dissent.


¶1 This case requires us to determine whether, under prevailing Colorado equal protection principles, a defendant may be charged with second degree assault based on conduct involving strangulation under both the deadly weapon subsection of the second degree assault statute, section 18-3-203...

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