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Justices consider 'disruptive effect' of potential self defense requirement | Colorado Politics


Although Colorado law provides multiple ways of disproving a criminal defendant acted in self-defense, the Colorado Supreme Court on Wednesday considered whether jurors must agree unanimously on which single condition nullifies a self-defense argument.
In doing so, one of the justices worried that a newfound unanimity requirement could open up past criminal convictions to reversal.
“Boy, we have a lot of cases out there that you could have criminal defendants saying, ‘Well, we don’t have a unanimity finding. We need to go back and reverse my conviction,’” said Justice Monica M. Márquez during oral argument. “I m just concerned about the disruptive effect of such a rule.” ....

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