Ezamika Brown, Petitioner v. the People of the State of Colorado, Respondent — Coats, J., Concurring

Summary

Justice Coats concurred only in the judgment affirming the court of appeals. He concluded that the evidence supported the defendant's requested voluntary-intoxication and lesser-homicide instructions, but that the defendant was not entitled to instructions requiring the jury to reject his binding judicial admission that he did not commit the charged conduct. He also disagreed with the majority's alternative evidentiary rationale and its limitation of existing doctrine.