Legal Opinion
People v. Cerrone
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided June 7, 1993No. Nos. 91SC760, 92SC245PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lohr
We granted certiorari in order to determine whether the Colorado Court of Appeals in People v. Cerrone, 829 P.2d 468 (Colo.App.1991), and People v. Goetz, No. 90CA0514 (Colo.App. Feb. 13, 1991), applied the proper legal standards in concluding under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment that there had been racial discrimination in the selection of the 1985-86 Colorado statewide grand jury (“1985-86 grand jury”)- We hold that the legal standards applied in Cerrone and Goetz are partially incorrect and that the opposite result is reached when only the correct standards are…
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