People v. Thomas

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that where the defendant sought postconviction relief during the pendency of his appeal, “amendatory legislation mitigating the penalties for crimes 7 should be applied to any case which has not received final judgment”
• noting that “[t]he legislature intended the changed legal standards to apply wherever constitutionally permissible” but making no mention of whether the amendatory legislation reclassifying attempted second degree burglary explicitly stated that it applied retroactively
• construing the predecessor to section 18-1-410(1)(f) and noting that applying changed legal standards is “especially appropriate” when a change in the law reducing a defendant’s sentence intervenes before “conviction is had and sentence is imposed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Cali
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2020-03-09· cited 1,659×
• People v. Stellabotte
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2018-07-02· cited 714×
• v. Hamm
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2019-06-20· cited 525×
• People v. Cooper
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2001-06-25· cited 254×
• People v. Pineda-Eriza
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2001-06-07· cited 177×
• Holiday v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1996-07-30· cited 46×
• Tacorante v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1981-03-02· cited 43×
• People v. Bloom
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1978-04-17· cited 40×
• Watford v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1979-01-29· cited 37×
• People v. MacIas
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1981-07-20· cited 34×
• State v. MacArelli
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1977-07-27· cited 31×
• Riley v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1992-04-13· cited 30×
• Noe v. Dolan
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1979-01-22· cited 30×
• People v. McCoy
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1988-11-14· cited 24×
• People v. Truesdale
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1976-02-23· cited 24×
• . People v. Trujillo
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2018-02-08· cited 23×
• People v. Russell
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2014-03-13· cited 20×
• People v. Lake
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1978-06-05· cited 19×
• People v. Stellabotte
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2016-07-14· cited 18×
• People v. Montgomery
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1987-05-26· cited 16×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• In Re Estrada
  California Supreme Court· 1965-12-23· cited 2,432×
• People v. Oliver
  New York Court of Appeals· 1956-04-26· cited 172×
• People v. Herrera
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1973-10-29· cited 62×
• Belt v. Turner
  Utah Supreme Court· 1971-01-20· cited 36×
• People v. Odom
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1972-10-27· cited 15×