People v. Griego’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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1. “the statutory classification must turn on ‘reasonably intelligible standards of criminal culpability,’ and any definition of a crime must be ‘sufficiently coherent and discrete that a person of average intelligence can reasonably distinguish it from conduct proscribed by other offenses.’ " People v. Griego , 2018 CO 5 , ¶ 36 , 409 P.3d 338, 344 ( quoting Marcy , 628 P.2d at 80 -81 ) . ¶84 Here, the definition of "harm”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Cheryl Lynette PLEMMONS v. The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado

2. “when separate statutes prescribe different penalties for what ostensibly might be different acts but offer no intelligent standard for distinguishing between and among these acts, those statutes deny equal protection under the law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. People v. Slaughter

3. “and we interpret every word, rendering no words or phrases superfluous and construing undefined words and phrases according to their common usage.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. In re People v. Tafoya