Colorado § 19-2.5-1301 - Appeals.
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§ 19-2.5-1301. Appeals.
(1) Appellate procedure is governed by the Colorado appellate rules. Initials must appear on the record on appeal in place of the juvenile's and other respondents' names. Appeals must be advanced on the calendar of the appellate court and decided at the earliest practical time.
(2) The prosecution in a delinquency case may appeal any decision of the trial court as provided in section 16-12-102.
Source: L. 2021: Entire article added with relocations, (SB 21-059), ch. 136, p. 675, § 2, effective October 1.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 19-2-903 as it existed prior to 2021.
ANNOTATION
Annotator's note. The following annotations include cases decided under former provisions similar to this section.
Juvenile court's finding that a juvenile cannot be restored to competency is a final appealable order. People ex rel. C.Y., 2012 COA 31, 275 P.3d 762.
Juvenile delinquency cases may be appealed to the supreme court after trial. People in Interest of P.L.V. v. P.L.V., 172 Colo. 269, 472 P.2d 127 (1970).
An interlocutory appeal is not available to either the state or the respondent in a delinquency proceeding under the Colorado Children's Code. People in Interest of P.L.V. v. P.L.V., 172 Colo. 269, 472 P.2d 127 (1970).
Neither the state nor the respondent can prosecute interlocutory appeals in delinquency proceedings. People in Interest of G.D.K. v. G.D.K., 30 Colo. App. 54, 491 P.2d 81 (1971).
C.A.R. 4.1 does not apply. C.A.R. 4.1 cannot be stretched to permit an interlocutory appeal in a delinquency proceeding without doing violence to the distinction carefully drawn by the supreme court between a criminal proceeding and a proceeding in delinquency. People in Interest of P.L.V. v. P.L.V., 172 Colo. 269, 472 P.2d 127 (1970).
C.A.R. 4.1, which authorizes certain interlocutory appeals in criminal cases, has no application to delinquency proceedings. People in Interest of G.D.K. v. G.D.K., 30 Colo. App. 54, 491 P.2d 81 (1971).
Application of C.A.R. 1(a)(1). Delinquency proceedings are no less subject to the finality requirements of C.A.R. 1(a)(1) than any other type of proceeding. People in Interest of D.H., 37 Colo. App. 544, 552 P.2d 29 (1976), aff'd, 192 Colo. 542, 561 P.2d 5 (1977).
Applied in People in Interest of R.R., 43 Colo. App. 208, 607 P.2d 1013 (1979).
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