Legal Opinion
Padilla v. People
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided May 4, 1970No. 23368PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Day
John Junior Padilla, along with Eugene Paul Vigil (See Vigil v. People, 171 Colo. 518, 470 P.2d 837) was tried and found guilty of murder in the first degree and of conspiracy to commit murder. Both were sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary on the first count and given concurrent sentences on the second count. In addition to Padilla and Vigil, two other persons were also charged but were not tried jointly with these defendants.
Evidence of the homicide, which was committed during a robbery, was that on August 28, 1964, two armed men entered the Seagrams Inn in Denver at…
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- Duane Earl Pope v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1967
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