In Re: the People of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff v. Curtis A. Brooks, Defendant.

Summary

The court held that Colorado's revised resentencing scheme for juveniles serving unconstitutional mandatory life-without-parole sentences does not violate the Special Legislation Clause. Assuming the clause applies, the court determined that the statute creates a genuine class and that the distinctions between felony-murder offenders and other offenders, and between offenses committed during the specified period and other offenses, are reasonable. The court therefore discharged the rule to show cause.