City of Greenwood Village Ex Rel. State v. Fleming

QUINN, Justice.

We granted certiorari to review a decision of the district court of Arapahoe County, which invalidated an ordinance and a procedural system of adjudication adopted thereunder by the petitioner, City of Greenwood Village, as violative of Article XX, Section 6, of the Colorado Constitution. The ordinance in question purported to decriminalize Class 3 and Class 4 traffic offenses. A separate procedural system, civil in nature, was established by the city for the adjudication of these violations. The respondent, Michael Wayne Fleming, had been charged with violating the city’s…