People v. Cobb

We granted the prosecution’s request to review the judgment in People v. Cobb, No. 94CA1678 (Colo.App. March 6, 1997), where the court of appeals, in an unpublished opinion, reversed the defendant’s conviction on one count of first degree sexual assault.1 After reviewing the record, we conclude that the district court’s exclusion of certain evidence as a sanction for failure to disclose the identity of a witness before trial was improper. We therefore affirm the judgment of the court of appeals and remand for a new trial.

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This case arose from an incident that began on Colfax Avenue in…