In a precedential move, the Colorado Supreme Court “discarded a troublesome relic” from that state’s common law of evidence—the res gestae doctrine. 

“It is time for us to bury res gestae,” Justice William W. Hood III wrote for the majority. “This court’s adoption of the Colorado Rules of Evidence more than four decades ago should have rendered the res gestae doctrine obsolete.”

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