People v. Sandoval

Opinion by

JUDGE MILLER

¶ 1 Defendant,1 Steven J. Sandoval, was convicted of sexual assault in Denver District Court. As a sixteen-year-old at the time of the events in question, he could be charged only as a juvenile in Denver Juvenile Court unless his conduct constituted an enumerated offense under the direct file statute then in effect, Ch. 122, sec. 6, § 19-2-517(l)(a), 2006 Colo. Sess. Laws 422-23. (Citations in this opinion to section 19-2-517 are to the version in effect in 2007.) But neither that charge nor another that was dismissed qualified under that statute.

¶ 2 We must now decide…