The People of the State of Colorado, Petitioner v. Curtis Gordon Adams, Respondent

Summary

The court held that both sentencing enhancements apply to Adams’s conviction for assaulting a correctional officer while incarcerated. The general enhancement increases the permissible term of years, while the special enhancement requires the sentence to run consecutively, and the provisions do not conflict. The court rejected the argument that its prior escape-related decision required the special enhancement to displace the general one, overruled the contrary intermediate appellate decision, and reversed the sentence-vacatur ruling.