Bob Junior Maestas, Petitioner v. the People of the State of Colorado, Respondent.

Summary

The court held that a sufficiency-of-the-evidence claim may be raised for the first time on appeal and must be reviewed de novo, including when it depends on an unpreserved statutory-construction issue. Because the court of appeals applied plain-error review and did not decide whether the evidence legally supported the burglary conviction, the court reversed that portion of the judgment and remanded for de novo review.