Edwards v. People

BENDER, Justice.

I. Introduction

We review and affirm the court of appeals’ decision in People v. Edwards, 101 P.3d 1118 (Colo.App.2004), which held that Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36, 124 S.Ct. 1354, 158 L.Ed.2d 177 (2004), does not apply retroactively to cases involving postconviction proceedings that concern convictions finalized prior to Crawford.

Edwards initiated postconviction proceedings to vacate his felony conviction, which was finalized before the United States Supreme Court decided Crawford. The Court rendered the Crawford decision while Edwards’s postconviction proceedings…