People v. Newman

Richard Newman,, a criminal defendant in the underlying prosecution, petitioned pursuant to C.A.R. 21 for relief from the trial court’s order sentencing him to four years in prison for the storage of hazardous waste without a permit. Newman’s initial six-year sentence had been reversed because it exceeded the statutorily authorized range for that offense. In resentencing him, the court openly relied on evidence that his operations had, over a number of years, also caused substantial injury by spilling a great deal of hazardous waste. Newman’s separate conviction of felony disposal for that…