Legal Opinion
People v. Garcia
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided December 11, 2017No. Supreme Court Case No. 17SA219PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hood
¶1 When Northglenn police officers went to Defendant Sylvia Garcia’s house to do a welfare check on a child, they found an elderly woman in distress on the living room floor. They also noticed a padlock on the refrigerator in the kitchen and feces and bugs throughout the house. Medical personnel, additional police officers, firefighters, and a building inspector soon poured into the residence.
¶2 Garcia made several statements to the officers at the house, including that she was a caretaker of the elderly woman (her mother) and that the padlock was to keep her brother from eating food in the…
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