People v. MacLeod

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a trial court’s interpretation of the rape-shield statute presented an appealable question of law under section 16-12-102(1)
• the rape shield protections apply no matter the purpose for which the defendant intended to introduce the evidence at trial
• the rape shield applies to evidence of a victim’s or witness’s prior or subsequent sexual conduct no matter 6 the purpose for which the propone nt intends to introduce the evidence at trial
• “The rape shield statute was passed in the 1970s when the General Assembly, as part of a national trend, changed the common law understanding of sexual assault as a crime of passion and recognized it as a hostile crime of violence and domination.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Villa
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2009-10-01· cited 861×
• People v. Torrez
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2013-03-28· cited 550×
• People v. Salazar
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2012-03-19· cited 376×
• v. N.T.B
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2019-10-03· cited 193×
• Pierson v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2012-06-18· cited 10×
• Stafford, Curtis Roscoe
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-03-06
• in the Interest of D.F.A.E
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2020-06-11
• The People of the State of Colorado v. Donald Louis Gerle.
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2026-06-23

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. Murphy
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1996-06-10· cited 710×
• People v. Melillo
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2001-05-29· cited 267×
• People v. McKenna
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1978-10-10· cited 243×
• People v. Gholston
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2000-05-11· cited 194×
• People v. Weiss
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2006-04-24· cited 130×
• People v. Aldrich
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1992-08-13· cited 58×
• People v. Kyle
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2004-07-29· cited 44×
• In re People ex rel. K.N.
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1999-04-12· cited 27×
• People v. Bryant
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2004-07-19· cited 16×
• Fernandez v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1971-11-15· cited 10×
• People v. MacLeod
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2007-03-26· cited 5×