People v. Garrison

Defendant, Charles Allen Garrison, appeals the judgment of conviction entered upon jury verdicts finding him guilty of first degree murder after deliberation and using a deadly weapon. We affirm.

Defendant was contacted by police in the mountains west of Denver in March 1999 for reasons unrelated to the murder. After driving his car into a ravine, defendant was medically treated for self-inflicted knife wounds and issued a summons for traffic charges.

Six days later, police officers in Aurora discovered the victim’s partially decomposed body. Evidence was presented at trial that the victim died…