The People of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff v. C.j. Day, Defendant — Coats, J., Dissenting

Summary

Justice Coats, joined by Justices Rice and Eid, dissented from the majority's treatment of the jury's verdicts on a pattern-of-sexual-abuse count. He would have concluded that the charge, instructions, and verdict established two completed sexual assaults, that the inconsistent verdicts did not require disregarding the pattern-of-abuse verdict, and that the court should dismiss the matter because its original jurisdiction was improperly exercised. The dissent also contended that the majority improperly limited the governing pattern-of-abuse precedent.