Title: People v. Logan
Citation: 588 P.2d 870
Docket Number: 28402
State: Colorado
Issuer: Colorado Supreme Court
Date: January 8, 1979

588 P.2d 870 (1979) The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Leland Glen LOGAN, Defendant-Appellant. No. 28402. Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc. January 8, 1979. Rehearing Denied January 29, 1979. *871 J. D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., David W. Robbins, Deputy Atty. Gen., Edward G. Donovan, Sol. Gen., J. Stephen Phillips, Chief, Crim. Appeals Appellate Section, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for plaintiff-appellee. J. Gregory Walta, Colorado State Public Defender, Craig L. Truman, Chief Deputy State Public Defender, Nicholas R. Massaro, Jr., Deputy State Public Defender, Denver, for defendant-appellant. LEE, Justice. Defendant-appellant was committed to the Colorado State Hospital in 1973 after he was found not guilty of first-degree murder by reason of insanity. In 1977, appellant filed a motion for a release hearing under section 16-8-115, C.R.S. 1973. The director of the Colorado State Hospital recommended continued hospitalization. A trial to decide eligibility for release was held and the jury found that appellant's reasonably foreseeable dangerousness to either himself or others warranted continued confinement. Appellant appeals on the ground that it is unconstitutional to require him to bear the burden of proof that he will not be dangerous in the reasonably foreseeable future. Section 16-8-115(2), C.R.S. 1973.[1] People v. Howell, Colo., 586 P.2d 27, is dispositive of the issue here presented. We therefore affirm. In that case, the identical argument was presented to this court for determination and the court stated: Judgment affirmed. [1] By prior order of this court, all other issues raised by appellant were dismissed because they were not argued to the trial court.