Court Opinion

ID: 5177168
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-06 01:07:03.20054+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:26:22.777077
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JUSTICE HOOD,
dissenting.
¶ 4 In People v. Novotny, 2014 CO 18, ¶ 27, 320 P.3d 1194, this court overturned the automatic-reversal rule of People v. Macrander, 828 P.2d 234 (Colo.1992), and replaced it with an “appropriate case specific, outcome-determinative analysis.” I dissented, in part because I am convinced that Novotny substitutes “Macranden>s rule mandating automatic reversal with a rule seeming to mandate automatic affirmance.” See Novotny, ¶ 31 (Hood, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part). For the same reasons articulated in that dissent, I respectfully dissent here as well.
I am authorized to state that JUSTICE HOBBS joins in the dissent.