Legal Opinion
People in Interest of CM
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided June 29, 1981No. 80SA92PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
QUINN, Justice.
The People appeal from an order of the Denver Juvenile Court holding unconstitutional section 18-9-112(2)(d), C.R.S.1973 (1978 Repl.Vol. 8), commonly referred to as the school loitering statute. We conclude that section 18-9-112(2)(d) is unconstitutionally vague in violation of due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article II, Section 25, of the Colorado Constitution. Accordingly, we affirm the juvenile court.
Section 18-9-112(2)(d) states that a person commits a class 1 petty offense if he: “Loiters in or about a school building…
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