Legal Opinion
People v. Giles
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided May 2, 1983No. 81SA419PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
QUINN, Justice.
The defendant-appellant Robert Giles appeals from a denial of a Crim.P. 35 motion to vacate a judgment of conviction and sentence for the crime of escape while being confined pursuant to an insanity commitment. He claims that the application of the escape statute to him violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment, U.S. Const. Amend. XIV, and the constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, U.S. Const. Amend. VIII. 1 We affirm the judgment.
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In 1979 the defendant was charged with having escaped on November 27,1978, from…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Addington v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Robinson v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- People v. GutierrezSupreme Court of Colorado · 1981
- People v. District Court for County of JeffersonSupreme Court of Colorado · 1968
- People v. ChavezSupreme Court of Colorado · 1981
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Neiberger v. HawkinsDistrict Court, D. Colorado · 2002
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