Lacy v. People

LOHR, Justice.

We granted certiorari to review an unpublished decision of the Colorado Court of Appeals affirming the conviction of defendant-petitioner John Wesley Lacy, Jr., on three habitual criminal counts. The court of appeals upheld the trial court’s denial of the defendant’s motion to dismiss the habitual criminal counts at issue in this petition. The defendant asserts on certiorari that his guilty pleas to the charges underlying the habitual criminal counts were constitution*3ally infirm. We conclude that two of these convictions were based on constitutionally infirm pleas of guilty and…