Colorado justices consider judges’ resentencing power after successful appeals

Colorado justices consider judges’ resentencing power after successful appeals

After a defendant succeeds in getting the Court of Appeals to vacate one of his convictions, can the trial judge impose a new sentence on the remaining convictions? And did that authority exist when the Court of Appeals mandated one thing and only one thing: vacating Octavio Hernandez-Escajeda’s unlawful conviction and correcting the sentencing document […]

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