Rael v. People

¶ 1 This case requires us to decide whether it was reversible error for a trial court in a criminal case to provide the deliberating jury with “unfettered and unsupervised access” to a crime scene video and a video of a police interview of the defendant, Ignacio Ray “Mike” Rael. 1 In People v. Rael, No. 10CA634 (Colo. App. Oct. 3, 2013), a unanimous division of the court of appeals concluded that the trial court did not err in either regard. In reaching this conclusion, the division relied on our decision in DeBella v. People, 233 P.3d 664, 665-66 (Colo.2010), in which we considered the…