Liberto v. Sanders

How courts have described this case

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• declining to apply abatement ab initio to matters pending on certiorari review, noting that other courts have questioned its impact on the rights of crime victims
• declining to apply abatement ab initio to matters pending on certiorari review, noting that other courts have questioned its impact on the rights of crime victims
• “Under the doctrine of abatement ab initio, a defendant’s death abates not just the pending appeal but all proceedings in the prosecution ‘ab initio,’ or ‘from the beginning.’”
• doctrine first recognized by Supreme Court of Colorado in 1904

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).