Opinion
23SC428
02-05-2024
Chad Ray Hovet, Petitioner v. The People of the State of Colorado, Respondent
Court of Appeals Case No. 20CA920
Petition for Writ of Certiorari DENIED.
JUSTICE GABRIEL and JUSTICE HART would grant as to the following issues:
Whether a trial court's error in misapplying settled legal principles is not "obvious" for purposes of the plain-error standard where a case requires the application of settled legal principles to new factual contexts that can be analogized to existing precedent.
Whether there was a "reasonable possibility" that the trial court's erroneous admission of GPS evidence constituting the cornerstone of the prosecution's case contributed to the defendant's conviction, thereby resulting in plain error.