Myers v. District Court for Fourth Judicial Dist.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a prosecutor has the \constitutional power to exercise his discretion\ whether to direct file against a juvenile
• interpreting Colo. Sess. Law 1978, ch. 110, § 221-4 at 385, the predecessor to § 19-2-517(1)(a)
• upholding statute allowing certain juveniles older than sixteen to be treated as adults
• adopting the definition of an ex post facto law as in Calder
• “[T]he district attorney may properly invoke the concurrent jurisdiction of the district court [in] deciding to proceed against a person between the ages of sixteen and eighteen in district court rather than juvenile court.” (analyzing predecessor statute)
• statute which allowed district attorney to prosecute certain juveniles as adults was not an ex post facto law even though it applied to juveniles who had been adjudicated delinquents prior to the effective date of the statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).