Buell v. People

JUSTICE GABRIEL delivered the Opinion of the Court.

¶1 Francis Gayle Buell was caught shoplifting at a Sears department store in Greeley and again, about two and one-half months *859 later, at a Safeway supermarket in Greeley. The prosecution initially charged Buell in separate cases arising from these incidents but subsequently moved to consolidate the cases under Crim. P. 13. The trial court granted that motion.

¶2 We granted certiorari to consider Buell's contention that the trial court abused its discretion in consolidating the two cases because, in his view, proper consolidation requires the…