People v. Harlan

HOBBS, Justice.

Pursuant to C.A.R. 21, we review the prosecution’s challenge to the trial court’s judgment vacating a jury verdict imposing the death penalty on Robert Eliot Harlan and imposing a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. We uphold the trial court’s order and judgment, and discharge the rule.

Previously, we affirmed Harlan’s death sentence. People v. Harlan, 8 P.3d 448 (Colo.2000). In 1995, a jury found Harlan guilty of raping and murdering Rhonda Maloney and shooting Jaquie Creazzo, who tried to rescue Maloney when she escaped from Harlan’s car. In…