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- Title: Lacy V. People
- Author : Colorado Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 24, 1989
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 58 KB
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We granted certiorari to review an unpublished decision of the Colorado Court of Appeals affirming the conviction of defendant-petitioner John Wesley Lacy, Jr., on three habitual criminal counts. The court of appeals upheld the trial court's denial of the defendant's motion to dismiss the habitual criminal counts at issue in this petition. The defendant asserts on certiorari that his guilty pleas to the charges underlying the habitual criminal counts were constitutionally infirm. We conclude that two of these convictions were based on constitutionally infirm pleas of guilty and could not be used as predicates for habitual criminality charges. Since at least two habitual criminal counts must be proved before a defendant can be adjudged a habitual criminal and therefore subject to mandatory increased sentencing, see § 16-13-101, 8A C.R.S. (1986), we need not address the validity of the defendant's plea underlying the single remaining habitual criminal count. We therefore reverse the judgment and remand the case for resentencing.