People v. Chavez

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• rejecting the defendant’s contention that “the right to a twelve person jury is a fundamental right that cannot be waived by defense counsel” and holding that the requirement of a personal waiver “does not extend to a reduction in the number of jurors”
• counsel’s verbal request for a six-person jury, on the record, was sufficient to waive the statutory right to a twelve-person jury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Baird
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2002-11-07· cited 221×
• People v. Rodriguez
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2005-05-31· cited 26×
• People v. Finney
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2012-03-15· cited 20×
• v. Forgette
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2021-02-25· cited 5×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Williams v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-22· cited 1,740×
• People v. Burnette
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1989-06-26· cited 62×
• People v. Allen
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1987-10-13· cited 24×
• People v. Waters
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1981-10-08· cited 15×