Legal Opinion

People v. Fisher

Supreme Court of Colorado

Decided September 8, 1975No. 26382PublishedCited by 17 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Pringle

The defendant was charged with the November 14, 1972 abduction and shooting of two female children in Boulder County. The defendant entered pleas of not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity to one count of murder, one count of assault in the first degree, and two counts of kidnapping in the first degree. A jury found the defendant sane at the time of all the offenses charged, and he subsequently plead guilty to murder in the first degree and assault in the first degree. For these crimes he received concurrent sentences of life imprisonment and twenty to forty years, respectively, on…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Murphy v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1876

3Cited by17 opinions

  1. People v. PetersonSupreme Court of Colorado · 1983
  2. People v. HowellColorado Court of Appeals · 2002
  3. People v. SharpColorado Court of Appeals · 2006
  4. People v. GriffithsColorado Court of Appeals · 2010
  5. Hellman v. RhodesSupreme Court of Colorado · 1987

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