The People of the State of Colorado, Petitioner/cross-Respondent v. — Coats, J., Concurring in Part and Dissenting…

Summary

Justice Coats concurred only in the decision to order a new probation-revocation hearing and dissented from the majority's instructions for conducting it. He would require a specific finding of good cause before admitting testimonial hearsay without confrontation and would construe the applicable statute as addressing only hearsay evidence otherwise excluded under constitutional exclusionary rules, not as creating a broad hearsay or discovery right. Justice Eid, concurring in part and dissenting in part, would have upheld the revocation because the hearsay letter was sufficiently reliable and the probationer did not challenge its substance.