Juhl v. People

We granted certiorari to review the trial court's statutory authority to impose consecutive rather than concurrent sentences for defendant Raymond Juhl's convictions for first degree assault and vehicular assault. Both charges, to which Juhl pleaded guilty, arose out of his head-on collision with the victim's truck after a high-speed chase in which Juhl attempted to elude the police. On appeal, Juhl contended that the sentences imposed for his first degree assault and vehicular assault pleas should run concurrently pursuant to section 18-1-408@8), C.R.S. (2007), which requires that the trial…