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one-continuous-sentence rule in Colorado

5 Colorado opinions name it 2 courts 2016–2026 2 in the last five years

The cases below were cited by Colorado courts in a sentence that names this issue. Sides come from how each citing opinion treated the case (Syfertize flag on that citation), so a case can appear on both: that is where the law is contested. A red or yellow chip is the case's own overall treatment.

Followed or applied (4)

CaseFollowedCited
Nowak v. Suthersgreen
colo · 2014 · cited in 3 Colorado opinions naming this issue, 2016–2019
2 sentences

2019See Fetzer , ¶¶ 14, 16, 20, 396 P.3d at 1112-13 ; *318 Nowak , ¶¶ 33-35, 40, 320 P.3d at 347 -48 .

2019See Nowak , ¶ 40, 320 P.3d at 348 (concluding that the DOC must aggregate consecutive sentences when computing an inmate's parole eligibility date, even when doing so would result in the inmate becoming parole eligible before serving at least fifty percent of the second sentence); see also Fetzer , ¶¶ 16-17, 396 P.3d at 1112-13 (determining that calculating an inmate's parole eligibility date solely on the basis of an inmate's longest sentence, in place of a composite continuous sentence accounting for all the inmate's separate sentences, violates the one-continuous-sentence rule). ¶15 We star

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Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Corrections v. Fetzergreen
colo · 2017 · cited in 2 Colorado opinions naming this issue, 2019–2022
2 sentences

2022Id. at 718 . ¶38 Importantly, we recognized in Fetzer that we upheld the DOC’s solution in Price because the DOC’s “interpretation of its responsibility to administer” the 17 different statutes in question “was reasonable and contravened no legislative or constitutional rights or policies.” Fetzer, ¶ 14, 396 P.3d at 1112 .

2019See Nowak , ¶ 40, 320 P.3d at 348 (concluding that the DOC must aggregate consecutive sentences when computing an inmate's parole eligibility date, even when doing so would result in the inmate becoming parole eligible before serving at least fifty percent of the second sentence); see also Fetzer , ¶¶ 16-17, 396 P.3d at 1112-13 (determining that calculating an inmate's parole eligibility date solely on the basis of an inmate's longest sentence, in place of a composite continuous sentence accounting for all the inmate's separate sentences, violates the one-continuous-sentence rule). ¶15 We star

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Diehl v. Weisergreen
colo · 2019 · cited in 1 Colorado opinions naming this issue, 2026–2026
1 sentence

2026See Diehl, ¶¶ 19-26, 444 P.3d at 318-19 . ¶ 25 No legal authority supports Lewis’s contention that the one continuous sentence rule applies to sentences that were discharged before he was sentenced in his most recent case — even if the trial 10 court entered the latter sentence nunc pro tunc.

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Griffis v. Branch Banking & Trust Co.green
gactapp · 2004 · cited in 1 Colorado opinions naming this issue, 2026–2026
1 sentence

2026Co., 602 S.E.2d 307, 311 (Ga. Ct. App. 2004) (holding that the lack of a hearing transcript did not impact the court’s ability to review the appellant’s arguments because “the hearing was not to receive evidence but was to hear argument of counsel”).) ¶ 12 Lewis first contends that the DOC improperly calculated his second degree murder sentence and PED under the one continuous sentence rule.

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Distinguished, questioned or overruled (0)

CaseNegativeCited
No negative-treatment citations attached to this issue in Colorado. Read the followed side critically anyway.

Also cited on this issue (1)

CaseCitedYears
Price v. Mills green
colo · 1986
1 sentence

2022Id. at 718 . ¶38 Importantly, we recognized in Fetzer that we upheld the DOC’s solution in Price because the DOC’s “interpretation of its responsibility to administer” the 17 different statutes in question “was reasonable and contravened no legislative or constitutional rights or policies.” Fetzer, ¶ 14, 396 P.3d at 1112 .

12022–2022

Statutes the citing opinions construe

CO § Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-22.5-101 (5) CO § Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-22.5-403 (4)

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