(DOWNLOAD) "James V. People" by Colorado Supreme Court " eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: James V. People
- Author : Colorado Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 03, 1986
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 58 KB
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We granted certiorari to review the decision of the Colorado Court of Appeals in People v. James, 694 P.2d 356 (Colo. App. 1984), which affirmed the conviction of Jarvis James for first degree sexual assault. The trial court instructed the jury that first degree sexual assault can be committed by causing submission of the victim in any one of three specified ways. On appeal, the defendant contended that the general verdict of the jury could not be sustained because there was no evidence to support one of these three alternative means of causing submission. The court of appeals found this contention both legally and factually wanting. That court also rejected the defendant's arguments that the trial court had erred in denying his motion for disqualification of the trial judge and in receiving testimony from two physicians concerning the victim's emotional and physical condition several days after the events upon which the prosecution was based. We granted certiorari to review these three holdings and now affirm the judgment of the court of appeals.