Supreme Court of Colorado, 2001

In an original proceeding under C.A.R. 21, the Colorado Supreme Court held that CRE 702, not Frye's general-acceptance test, governs the admissibility of scientific evidence in Colorado, requiring a broad, totality-of-the-circumstances inquiry into reliability and relevance—encompassing the reliability of the…

The Supreme Court of Colorado held that driving after revocation prohibited requires proof that the defendant acted with the culpable mental state of 'knowingly' as defined in section 18-1-501(6), and that a trial court's refusal to instruct the jury on that statutory definition is an error of constitutional…