People v. Sharp’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

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1. “Colorado is among the substantial majority of states that have consolidated the crimes of larceny, embezzlement, and theft under false pretenses in a single crime of theft. According to [the theft] statute, a person commits the crime of theft when he knowingly obtains or exercises control over anything of value of another without authorization ... and in addition he either intends to permamently deprive the other person of its use or benefit; demands a consideration to which he is not legally entitled to return it; or uses, conceals, or abandons it with the intent to, or at least the knowledge that his conduct will, permanently deprive the other person of its use or benefit. See § 18-4-401(1), C.R.S. (200[9]). Whichever way the crime is committed, it constitutes the offense of "theft."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Starr v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office

2. “substitute [our] judgment for that of the jury and reweigh the evidence or the eredi-bility of witnesses.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Poe