Court Opinion

ID: 9533479
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 04:32:03.371635+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:29:03.823226
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Justice SCOTT
concurring and specially concurring:
I join the majority in its opinion and its judgment. I, too, agree that “even in the absence of a restraining order, an estranged spouse is not privileged or licensed to enter the separate residence of the other spouse so as to create a defense to charges of second degree burglary and first degree criminal trespass.” Maj. op. at 123. I write separately, however, to make clear my view that an estranged spouse who is not licensed, invited, or otherwise privileged to enter the premises occupied by the other spouse effects an “unlawful entry” under our criminal code. § 18-4-201(3), 8B C.R.S. (1986); People v. McNeese, 892 P.2d 304, 315 (Colo.1995) (Rovira, C.J., concurring in the result and dissenting to Part IV); id., 892 P.2d at 323-25 (Scott, J., dissenting).