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PEOPLE v. ROAN

No. 83SA514.

685 P.2d 1369 (1984)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Petitioner, v. The Honorable Philip F. ROAN, District Court Judge, Adams County Colorado, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

August 20, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James F. Smith, Dist. Atty., Steven L. Bernard, Chief Trial Deputy Dist. Atty., Brighton, for petitioner.

David F. Vela, State Public Defender, Saskia A. Stephenson, Deputy State Public Defender, Brighton, for respondent.

NEIGHBORS, Justice.

The People, pursuant to C.A.R. 21, request a writ prohibiting the respondent judge from reducing the crime with which the defendant is charged from vehicular homicide to driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor as a sanction for the prosecution's loss of the victim's blood samples. We issued a rule to show cause and now make the rule absolute.

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