Legal Opinion

Pierson v. People

Supreme Court of Colorado

Decided June 18, 2012No. 10SC269PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Coats

1 Pierson sought review of the court of appeals' judgment in People v. Pierson, No. 06CA1880, 2010 WL 549208 (Colo.App. Feb. 18, 2010) (not published pursuant to CAR. 835(f), affirming his various convie-tions of felony sexual assault on a child and indecent exposure. The district court denied the defendant's pre-trial motion to admit evidence of the child's similar victimization by a teenage cousin, during substantially the same time period. The court of appeals upheld the trial court's ruling, finding both that the proffered evidence of prior sexual contact did not fall within the rape…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. People v. McKennaSupreme Court of Colorado · 1978
  2. People v. RathSupreme Court of Colorado · 2002
  3. People v. MelilloSupreme Court of Colorado · 2001
  4. People v. BowersSupreme Court of Colorado · 1990
  5. People v. MurphySupreme Court of Colorado · 1996

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