Delacruz v. People

JUSTICE MÁRQUEZ

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

¶ 1 Like Mosley v. People, 2017 CO 20, 392 P.3d 1198, a companion decision issued today, this case requires us to examine the interplay between various subsections of Colorado’s speedy trial statute, section 18-1-405, C.R.S. (2016), and specifically, whether the exclusions listed in subsection (6) of the statute apply to the six-month speedy trial calculation for a new trial following reversal of a defendant’s convictions on appeal. 1 Gerardo Delaeruz was convicted of first degree murder, attempted first degree murder, first degree assault,…