In Re the People of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff: v. Patrick L. Beverly, II., Defendant:

Summary

The court discharged the order to show cause and affirmed the trial court’s refusal to exclude evidence of the fentanyl purchaser’s suicidal intent. It held that the statute’s express proximate-cause requirement permits evidence that a purchaser intentionally overdosed because suicide may constitute an unforeseeable intervening cause, and it held that the evidence was not improperly admitted as irrelevant or unduly confusing.