Colorado Drunk Driving Case Law
Please find, below, selected case laws decided by Supreme Court of Colorado or Court of Appeals of Colorado where the terms dui, dwi, drunk driving, or driving under the influence has been mentioned. These cases are not necessarily criminal cases and may include cases where the facts or court decision merely mentions drunk driving related legal terms. You are not to rely on these cases as legal advice nor should you rely on them for accuracy. Please see Terms of Service.
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People v. Riggs - 10/26/1981
JUSTICE ERICKSON delivered the Opinion of the Court.
The Boulder County Court suppressed the results of intoxilyzer tests given to three defendants, who were charged in separate cases with driving under the influence of...
People v. Perez - 10/8/1981
Opinion by JUDGE STERNBERG
Following his conviction of vehicular homicide, defendant Ramon Perez appeals. We affirm.
Perez asserts that the trial court erred in not instructing the jury to convict only if they found his...
People v. Helm - 9/21/1981
JUSTICE DUBOFSKY delivered the Opinion of the Court.
The People bring an interlocutory appeal under C.A.R. 4.1 from an order of the county court, affirmed by the district court, suppressing the results of a roadside sobriety...
People v. Mascarenas - 8/31/1981
JUSTICE LOHR delivered the Opinion of the Court
This is an interlocutory appeal by the district attorney in a prosecution of the defendant, Rudy Mascarenas, for Driving After Judgment Prohibited, section 42-2-206(1), C.R.S....
People v. Ensor - 7/23/1981
Opinion by JUDGE PIERCE
The district attorney for Adams County appeals the judgment of the district court denying his request, pursuant to C.R.C.P. 106(a)(4), for an order prohibiting a county court judge from quashing a...
People v. Dooley - 7/6/1981
JUSTICE LOHR delivered the Opinion of the Court.
The defendant, John Emery Dooley, was convicted in El Paso County District Court of Driving After Judgment Prohibited, section 42-2-206, C.R.S. 1973. His appeal to the Colorado...
People v. Shaver - 7/6/1981
JUSTICE QUINN delivered the Opinion of the Court.
David Allen Shaver (defendant) appeals his conviction for Driving After Judgment Prohibited, section 42-2-206, C.R.S. 1973. The defendant claims that the statutory scheme of the...
Renck v. Motor Vehicle Division Department of Revenue - 7/2/1981
Opinion by Judge Tursi
Leslie Renck appeals the judgment of the trial court affirming a three month revocation of driving privileges under the implied consent act. We affirm.
Renck was stopped for speeding by a patrol...
Blum v. County Court of Larimer County - 6/18/1981
Opinion by JUDGE STERNBERG
The issue in this appeal is whether prosecution in the county court for driving under the influence is permissible after a defendant has entered a guilty plea to speeding in a municipal court where both...
People v. Gillett - 6/8/1981
JUSTICE QUINN delivered the opinion of the Court.
We granted certiorari to review the decision of the district court of Arapahoe County affirming the county court's dismissal of charges of driving under the influence of...
People v. Harfmann - 6/4/1981
Opinion by JUDGE KIRSHBAUM
Defendant appeals his jury conviction of possession of cocaine. We affirm.
Defendant was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and taken to the Boulder Criminal Justice Center....
McCampbell v. Charnes - 3/26/1981
Opinion by JUDGE VAN CISE
Robert Lee McCampbell (licensee) appeals the judgment of the district court affirming the three month revocation of his driver's license by the Department of Revenue pursuant to the implied consent law,...
Zoske v. People - 3/23/1981
JUSTICE ERICKSON delivered the Opinion of the Court.
We granted certiorari to review the Superior Court's affirmance of the defendant's (Frank Zoske) conviction for driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor (section ...
Lumbardy v. People - 3/23/1981
JUSTICE DUBOFSKY delivered the Opinion of the Court.
The defendant, Frank Duane Lumbardy, appeals his conviction under section 42-4-1402, C.R.S. 1973 (1980 Supp.) (a part of the state's "hit and run" statutory scheme), for...
Davis v. Colorado Department of Revenue - 2/17/1981
JUSTICE QUINN delivered the opinion of the Court.
Robert Lee Davis (appellant) appeals a judgment of the district court affirming an order of the Department of Revenue (department) revoking his driver's license for three months...
People v. Valdez - 1/12/1981
JUSTICE ROVIRA delivered the opinion of the Court.
The People have brought this interlocutory appeal under C.A.R. 4.1 seeking a review of a ruling by the trial court which suppressed a statement made by the defendant. The...
People v. McKnight - 9/2/1980
The appellant, Dewey Kenneth McKnight, was convicted in district court of Driving After Judgment Prohibited, section 42-2-206, C.R.S. 1973. McKnight has appealed, challenging the constitutionality of the statutes upon which his...
Heninger v. Charnes - 6/30/1980
The Department of Revenue (Department) revoked the driver's license of Dexter E. Heninger (Appellant), and the order of revocation was affirmed by the district court in a proceeding for judicial review under section 24-4-106, ...
Laughlin v. Colorado - 5/29/1980
Billy Ray Laughlin appeals the judgment of the district court affirming the revocation of his driver's license under the habitual offender statutes. See §§ 42-2-202 and 42-2-203, C.R.S. 1973. He argues that the hearing officer...
People v. Ramirez - 3/31/1980
We granted certiorari in these cases to consider the constitutional issues that have been raised by the imposition of roadside sobriety tests on persons suspected of driving under the influence of intoxicating liquors or drugs....
Thompson v. Tomasi - 12/28/1979
Opinion by JUDGE COYTE
On January 9, 1979, defendant's driver's license was revoked by the Department of Revenue for a period of nine months for driving under the influence and weaving. Defendant sought review of the Department's...
Cagle v. Charnes - 12/6/1979
Plaintiff appeals the judgment of the trial court affirming the order of the defendant, Director of the Department of Revenue, Motor Vehicle Division (Director), revoking plaintiff's license under the Habitual Offenders Act, § ...
Ayala v. Colorado Department of Revenue - 11/29/1979
The Department of Revenue appeals from a judgment of the district court which set aside the Department's order revoking the driver's license of Jose Alberto Ayala pursuant to the implied consent statute, § 42-4-1202(3), C.R.S....
Marin v. Colorado Department of Revenue - 12/7/1978
Plaintiff Albert Marin's driving privileges were revoked by the defendant Department of Revenue pursuant to the implied consent law, § 42-4-1202(3), C.R.S. 1973, for refusal to take a chemical sobriety test. Contending that he...
Zullo v. Charnes - 11/30/1978
The Department of Revenue's Division of Motor Vehicles suspended plaintiff's driver's license after it found that plaintiff had refused to submit to chemical tests in violation of § 42-4-1202(3)(e), C.R.S. 1973, of the implied...
Tobias v. Colorado - 10/26/1978
[41 ColoApp Page 444] Plaintiff appeals from a judgment of the district court which affirmed an order of the Department of Revenue revoking plaintiff's driver's license for a period of six months for his refusal to submit to a...
Augustino v. Colorado Department of Revenue - 6/6/1977
The appellant appeals the decision of the district court affirming the revocation of his driver's license under the Colorado implied consent law, section 42-4-1202, C.R.S. 1973. He bases his appeal on the grounds that: (1) he...
People v. Spiegel - 5/9/1977
Dale A. Spiegel, the attorney-respondent, is hereby disbarred and his license to practice law in the state of Colorado is revoked. His name is stricken from the roll of attorneys in Colorado and he is ordered forthwith to...
Zahtila v. Motor Vehicle Division - 2/3/1977
Defendant, Department of Revenue, Motor Vehicle Division, appeals from a judgment of the district court which vacated the Department's order revoking the driver's license of plaintiff, Anthony Zahtila, for a period of six months...
Harrington v. District Court - 1/24/1977
Petitioner in this original proceeding seeks relief in the nature of prohibition or mandamus to compel the respondent county court and respondent district court to dismiss a criminal charge against him on the grounds that he was...
People v. Williams - 12/13/1976
This is an interlocutory appeal seeking reversal of portions of a district court order suppressing evidence in a manslaughter case. After an extensive hearing on the defendant's motion, the trial court suppressed: (1) items of...
People v. Oldefest - 12/13/1976
The People ask us to review a ruling of the district court which dismissed an appeal from the county court. We affirm.
Defendant was charged on December 23, 1973, with the offenses of driving a motor vehicle while under the...
People v. Hedrick - 10/25/1976
Certiorari to the district court of Jefferson County to review a ruling concerning the constitutionality of the Colorado statute and Department of Health rules and regulations dealing with the Implied Consent Law, section ...
Johnson v. Motor Vehicle Division Department of Revenue - 8/26/1976
Pursuant to the implied consent statute, now § 42-4-1202(3), C.R.S. 1973, the defendant Department revoked plaintiff Johnson's drivers license for a period of six months. He sought review in the district court which upheld the...
People v. Clark - 12/11/1975
The opinion announced on August 19, 1975, is withdrawn, and the following opinion is issued in its stead.
Defendant, Melvin Clark, was tried by a jury and convicted of first degree burglary, in violation of § 18-4-202, ...
People v. Hauschel - 11/20/1975
Defendant appeals his conviction of first degree criminal trespass (§ 18-4-502, C.R.S. 1973), third degree misdemeanor assault (§ 18-3-204, C.R.S. 1973), and attempted sexual assault (§ 18-3-407, C.R.S. 1973 and § 18-2-101,...
Krapf v. Colorado Department of Revenue - 2/20/1974
RULAND, Judge.
Plaintiff appeals from a judgment of the district court which affirmed the Department of Revenue's order suspending plaintiff's license to operate a motor vehicle. We affirm the judgment of the district court. ...
Vigil v. Motor Vehicle Division of Department of Revenue - 2/11/1974
Several aspects of the implied consent law are challenged in this appeal. The implied consent law in brief states that any person who drives a motor vehicle upon the public highway is deemed to have given his consent to a chemical...
Zaba v. Motor Vehicle Division - 12/10/1973
Appellants Zaba and Work in separate proceedings before the appellee (Motor Vehicle Division) had their driver's licenses suspended. In both cases, an accumulation of points derived from traffic violations was the basis for the...
People v. Duran - 11/12/1973
Appellant, Jose E. R. Duran, appeals from an order of the district court of Saguache County denying his motion under Crim. P. 35(b) for withdrawal of his pleas of guilty to the crimes of assault with a deadly weapon, assault...
People v. Smith - 7/16/1973
Donald Earl Smith (defendant) was convicted by a jury in the Arapahoe County district court of two counts of inflicting bodily injury by operating an automobile while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, in violation of...
People v. Kokesh - 6/21/1971
This is an interlocutory appeal from an adverse ruling by the trial court on Defendant-Appellant's motion to suppress as evidence a urine sample taken from her without her consent.
The defendant has been charged with two...
People v. Fidler - 6/7/1971
This matter involves two interlocutory appeals from diverse rulings of the trial court on the defendant's motion to suppress (1) a blood sample and (2) a urine sample. The trial court denied the motion to suppress the blood...
Martinez v. People - 4/26/1971
[174 Colo Page 366] Defendant-Petitioner, Mary Jane Martinez, was charged with a series of violations of municipal ordinances and state laws in connection with an automobile accident which occurred on June 22, 1969. Pertinent to this...
Daniels v. People - 2/7/1966
Daniels was charged with causing a death by operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, as such offense is defined by C.R.S. 1963, 40-2-10. More specifically, the charge was that Daniels caused the...
Egle v. People - 2/7/1966
The plaintiff in error, who will hereinafter be designated as defendant or Egle, brings writ of error from a conviction for causing the death of one John Bell by driving in a careless manner while operating an automobile under the...
Lanford v. People - 1/10/1966
This is a case of first impression in Colorado as to certain aspects of alleged compulsory self-incrimination.
Plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to either as the defendant or by name, was convicted on November 7, 1963...
Johnson v. People - 11/28/1960
Plaintiff in error as defendant in the trial court was convicted of the offense of causing a death by operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. From the judgment and sentence imposed he brings the...
Espinosa v. People - 2/29/1960
Plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was convicted of causing a death while driving an automobile under the influence of intoxicating liquor in contravention of the provisions of C.R.S. '53, 40-2-10. The trial...
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