Legal Opinion
People v. Stackhouse
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided June 18, 2018No. Supreme Court Case 18SA26PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JUSTICE HART delivered the Opinion of the Court.
¶ 1 In this original proceeding, we review the district court's order permitting the People to retry James Stackhouse on only one of the many alleged acts of sexual assault on a child for which he had been charged. The district court concluded that the jury in Mr. Stackhouse's first trial had necessarily concluded that he did not commit multiple acts of assault, and therefore that he could not be retried for more than a single assault. The People filed a petition under C.A.R. 21, asking *298 us to review this conclusion. For the reasons set forth…
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