Bresnahan v. Luby

This is an original proceeding in which petitioners above named secured a rule, directed to the respondent, to show cause why he should not be disqualified to hear and determine the questions raised by one William James Bresnahan, Jr., in motions filed by him under Rule 35 (b), Colo. R. Crim. P.

Bresnahan, who was sixteen years of age, entered a plea of guilty to murder of the first degree in two separate informations filed in the court over which respondent presided. The two crimes to which the pleas were entered involved the killing of his father and mother. On January 27, 1965, he was…