People v. Cooper

These four cases, which we have consolidated here, present a question of the extension of the issue we resolved in Martin v. People, 27 P.3d 846 (2001). We granted certiorari in all four of these cases to determine whether the court of appeals correctly concluded that the statutory scheme and legislative intent require that parole for sex offenders convicted of offenses committed between July 1, 1996, and November 1, 1998, is discretionary under the provisions in sections 17-2-201(5)(@a.5) and 18-1-105(1)(a)(Vv)(C).1 Our inquiry focuses on two distinct statutory schemes of parole, and…