Garcia v. District Court

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the General Assembly did not have the authority to limit by statute the constitutional grant of authority to the district court
• noting that “it has long been the rule that the Denver Juvenile Court has no jurisdiction of criminal cases, as such, but that it has exclusive jurisdiction, for example, in delinquency and dependency matters, and in other special statutory proceedings”
• finding a statute unconstitutional under article VI, section 9 of the Colorado Constitution because it purported to grant the Denver juvenile court exclusive jurisdiction over certain criminal eases involving minors

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).