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GARCIA v. PEOPLE

Supreme Court Case No. 21SC473.

530 P.3d 1200 (2023)

2023 CO 41

Rafael Aguilar GARCIA, Petitioner, v. The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Colorado.

June 20, 2023.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Attorneys for Petitioner: Megan A. Ring , Public Defender, Joseph Paul Hough , Deputy Public Defender, Denver, Colorado.

Attorneys for Respondent: Philip J. Weiser , Attorney General, Brian M. Lanni , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Denver, Colorado.

Attorney for Amicus Curiae Advance Colorado: Daniel E. Burrows , Denver, Colorado.

JUSTICE HART delivered the Opinion of the Court, in which CHIEF JUSTICE BOATRIGHT, JUSTICE MARQUEZ, JUSTICE HOOD, JUSTICE GABRIEL, JUSTICE SAMOUR, and JUSTICE BERKENKOTTER joined.

¶ 1 Rafael Aguilar Garcia murdered his estranged wife's neighbor in Palisade, Colorado, in the summer of 1989. He immediately fled to Mexico. After unsuccessfully seeking his extradition back to Colorado, the Mesa County District Attorney's Office compiled a casebook on the crime and sent it...

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