People v. Naranjo

We granted the People’s petition for cer-tiorari to review the court of appeals’ decision in People v. Naranjo, 821 P.2d 836 (Colo.App.1991), in order to determine whether the defendant, Sammy Naranjo, was deprived of his constitutional right to testify at his 1977 trial due to the failure of his trial attorney to adequately inform him of that right and, if so, whether any such deprivation was subject to the harmless-error rule. In affirming the district court’s order granting the defendant’s Crim.P. 35(c) motion and awarding him a new trial, the court of appeals concluded that the record…