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People v. Boyd

Citations

  • 642 P.2d 1
  • 1982 Colo. LEXIS 537

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  • affirming dismissal of indictment charging defendants with act of boating on a body of water in violation of Sheriff’s Order, because without a penalty, it did not constitute a crime
  • refusing to infer a criminal offense for failing to comply with a sheriff's order closing a waterway; no express provision criminalized such conduct, and inferring such an offense would not clearly apprise a person of prohibited conduct
  • although statute empowered sheriff to issue an order closing a body of water, \no relevant statutory provision makes punishable as a crime a person's disobedience of [that order]\
  • although statute empowered sheriff to issue an order closing a body of water, \no relevant statutory provision makes punishable as a crime a person's disobedience of [that order]\

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Judges: Dubofsky

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