# Hunter v. District Ct. in & for Twentieth Jud. Dist.

> Supreme Court of Colorado · December 15, 1975 · 190 Colo. 48

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9561135

## Case

- **Full name:** Alexander M. Hunter, District Attorney, Twentieth Judicial District, Boulder, Colorado v. District Court in and for the Twentieth Judicial District, State of Colorado, and Honorable William D. Neighbors, District Judge in and for the Twentieth Judicial District, State of Colorado
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Colorado
- **Decided:** December 15, 1975
- **Citations:** 190 Colo. 48; 543 P.2d 1265; 84 A.L.R. 3d 800; 1975 Colo. LEXIS 885
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Groves
- **Judges:** Kelley, Day, Groves, Erickson
- **Cited by:** 56 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9561135

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- explaining that a preliminary hearing “protects the accused by avoiding an embarrassing, costly and unnecessary trial” and “benefits the interests of judicial economy and efficiency”
- holding Colorado’s bind-over hearing is “not a mini-trial” and that it does not focus on “consideration of the probability of conviction at the ensuing trial”

## Opinion text

MR. JUSTICE GROVES
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent. While I think the court should have ruled otherwise, I cannot say that it abused its discretion or committed reversible error. To do so makes this tribunal a trial court. Therefore, I cannot concur in the majority opinion.

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