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M.T. v. People

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  • 275 P.3d 661
  • 2010 WL 376525
  • 2010 Colo. App. LEXIS 140

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  • “[A] defendant who enters but later withdraws a guilty plea in a deferred judgment case once was convicted,” but is no longer after withdrawing his plea
  • “Courts should strive to avoid statutory constructions that would render a statute meaningless.”
  • “It is true that where sentencing is deferred, there is no ‘ judgment of conviction,’ . . . . But in most other contexts involving deferred judgments, accepting a guilty plea yields a conviction.”
  • “It is true that where sentencing is deferred, there is no ‘ judgment of conviction,’ . . . . But in most other contexts involving deferred judgments, accepting a guilty plea yields a conviction.”
  • term \conviction\ in § 24-72-808(8)(c), C.R.S.2010, refers to the defendant's guilty plea

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Judges: Connelly, Terry, Webb

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