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People v. Stewart

Citations

  • 55 P.3d 107
  • 2002 Colo. LEXIS 774
  • 2002 WL 31051582

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that an officer offered expert testimony when he used skidmarks at the scene to reconstruct an accident and deduce a vehicle’s speed, position, and direction
  • holding that police officer must be qualified as an expert before being allowed to testify about accident reconstruction and inferences he drew therefrom
  • holding that police officer must be qualified as an expert before being allowed to testify about accident reconstruction and inferences he drew therefrom
  • holding that where an instruction was not given due to counsel's apparent inadvertence, the court would review the claim of error on appeal
  • holding, where defense counsel had tendered one instruction but not another, “a nontactical instructional omission generally should be reviewed for plain error”
  • holding defendant was not entitled to intervening cause instruction because claimed intervening cause did not occur between the unlawful act and the ultimate harm

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Judges: Mullarkey

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201 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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