People v. Mascarenas

LOHR, Justice.

This is an interlocutory appeal by the district attorney in a prosecution of the defendant, Rudy Mascarenas, for Driving After Judgment Prohibited, section 42-2-206(1), C.R.S.1973. The district attorney challenges a ruling of the District Court for Rio Grande County that one of the traffic offense convictions supporting an habitual traffic offender determination of the Department of Revenue, Motor vehicle Division (DMV), was obtained in violation of the defendant’s constitutional right to counsel. U.S. Const. Amends. VI, XIV; Colo. Const Art. II, § 16. The court concluded that…