People v. Estrada

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that prosecutorial discretion between two statutes proscribing identical conduct with different penalties violates state constitutional principles of equal protection
• finding that “a penalty scheme that provides widely divergent sentences for similar conduct and intent to be irrational”
• finding that \a penalty scheme that provides widely divergent sentences for similar conduct and intent to be irrational\
• equal protection is inherent in the state constitution’s due process clause and is violated if widely divergent sentences are mandated for statutory offenses proscribing the same conduct
• equal protection is inherent in the state constitution's due process clause and is violated if widely divergent sentences are mandated for statutory offenses proscribing the same conduct

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Stewart
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2002-09-09· cited 1,181×
• People v. Wilkinson
  California Supreme Court· 2004-07-29· cited 305×
• People v. Clemons
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2012-04-19· cited 213×
• People v. Marcy
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1981-03-09· cited 153×
• State v. Cleve
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1999-03-11· cited 125×
• State v. Thompson
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2008-12-05· cited 85×
• People v. Griego
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2018-01-22· cited 37×
• Candelaria v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2006-12-18· cited 36×
• Dean v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2016-02-29· cited 33×
• Incorporated County of Los Alamos v. Montoya
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1989-02-07· cited 15×
• Alston v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2013-06-26· cited 7×
• State v. Sasai.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2018-10-29· cited 4×
• People v. Lewis
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1987-11-09· cited 4×
• People v. Finnessey
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1987-12-21· cited 2×
• The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Petitioner/Cross-Respondent v. Wayne Robert STEWART, Respondent/Cross-Petitioner.
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2002-09-09· cited 2×
• Thompson v. Ricketts
  D. Colorado· 1980-10-29· cited 1×
• People v. Martinez
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1983-04-04
• People v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1979-07-16

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Batchelder
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-04· cited 1,568×
• Radzanower v. Touche Ross & Co.
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-07· cited 674×
• Barrett v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1976-01-13· cited 306×
• People v. Bramlett
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1977-11-29· cited 55×
• People v. Montoya
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1978-08-31· cited 48×