Defendant, Ronald Ray Brewer, appeals the judgment of conviction and sentence enterеd upon jury verdicts finding him guilty of attempted first degree murder after deliberation, attempted aggravatеd robbery, and conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery. We affirm.
On November 30, 1981, defendant and two others attempted the armed robbery of a restaurant, during which they exchanged gunfire with policе officers.
Defendant first contends that his constitutional right to testify was needlessly chilled by an erroneous ruling of the trial court that he could not collaterally attack one of three prior convictions alleged in support of the imposition of an enhanced penalty. He argues that his right to testify was chilled because he could have been impeached by this felony conviction. We disagree.
An accused must testify in order to obtain appellate review of a trial court’s ruling that a previous conviction could have been used for impeachment.
Luce v. United States,
469 U.S. —,
Defendant next argues thаt the trial court was collaterally estopped from allowing the use of a prior conviсtion for impeachment purposes because a previous trial court had ruled that the conviction was unconstitutionally obtained. We disagree.
In the previous trial to which defendant alludеs, the court dismissed an habitual criminal charge because it found that a prior conviction had been unconstitutionally obtained. In
Wright v. People,
Defendant next assеrts that he was denied equal protection because he was given a drastically dispropоrtionate sentence for his conviction of attempted first degree murder after deliberatiоn than he would have received for first degree assault committed during the perpetration of а robbery under § 18-3-202(l)(d), C.R.S. (1985 Cum. Supp.). He contends that the two crimes do not contain rationally different elemеnts. Again, we disagree.
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Where different statutes proscribe dissimilar forms of conduct, and where there is a rational basis for disparate sanctions, such statutes do not offend equal protection guаrantees.
People v. Velasquez,
Attempted first degree murder requires the specific intent, after deliberation, to cause the death of a person other than the actor. Section 18-3-102, C.R.S. (1978 Repl. Vol. 8); § 18-2-101, C.R.S. (1978 Repl.Vol. 8). Subseсtion (l)(d) of the first degree assault statute, § 18-3-202, C.R.S. (1985 Cum.Supp.) does not require specific intent to cause serious bodily injury, although it requires that the actor have the mens rea necessary to satisfy the underlying felony. Under that subsection, an actor commits first degree assault whenever serious bodily harm is suffered by a person during the actor’s commission, or attempted commission, of any of the offenses specified in the subsection. As such, assault under this subsection of the statute is analogous to felony murder where sрecific intent is similarly not required.
See
§ 18-3-102(l)(b), C.R.S. (1978 Repl.Vol. 8);
People v. Scheer,
A statute which punishes an actor for his intended, albeit unsuccessful, murder оf another proscribes different conduct than a statute which punishes the actor for serious bоdily injury which occurs unintentionally during the commission of a specified felony. Further, the difference in the intent requirement between the two statutes provides a rational basis for disparate sanctions. The General Assembly may provide for more severe penalties for an act which it believes to be of greater social consequence.
People v. Czajkowski,
Defendant's final contention is that cumulative errors committed by the trial court require a reversal of his conviction. Upon examination of the record, we conclude that there were no errors committed. The cumulative error doctrine demands that numerous formal irregularities be committed, not simply alleged.
People v. Jones,
Judgment affirmed.