Author: By Carol McKinley
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Immigration judge sets surprise hearing for José Barco
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After seven months locked up in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention, a decorated Army veteran with a criminal past received an unexpected hurdle to clear late Friday afternoon. José Barco has been awaiting an immigration judge’s decision on whether he will be removed from the United States. Two weeks ago, the 39-year-old former Iraq…
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Jury trials in Denver on hold until 2021 due to coronavirus concerns
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Jury trials in Denver have been put on hold until early January, following a spike in coronavirus cases and a return for the city to Safer at Home level 3. On Friday, 2nd Judicial District Chief Judge Michael Martinez put a hold on juror summonses for trials until Jan. 4, 2021. “The decision to suspend…
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Boulder County issues order closing civil courts to address case backlog
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There’s such an enormous backlog of criminal trials in Colorado because of pandemic delays, civil trials in some jurisdictions will go dark until next summer as judges and attorneys scramble to keep up. The coronavirus surge has changed so quickly, a Boulder County District judge recently wrote one order to postpone all civil trials in…
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Gov. Polis’ mother offers film on rise in extremism and hate, and what it takes to defeat it
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Susan Polis Shutz got the idea for her eighth and latest documentary over a cup of coffee and the morning news. “I kind of got sick, there was so much hatred, anger and divisiveness, I almost stopped watching,” she told Colorado Politics. “I wondered, ‘Why is this happening? Why is our beautiful world being ruined?…
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For Sand Creek memorial sculptor, crime fighting and grief are etched into his past
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When sculptor Harvey Pratt looked at his Sand Creek Memorial prototype, he felt there was something missing. The mournful grief he had molded on the Cheyenne mother’s face was not enough. She is wailing, on her knees over the murder of her child, her right arm encircling an empty crib. His work took on a…
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Colorado’s Dem leaders offer full-throated support of mail balloting
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A handful of Colorado’s top Democrats formed a masked front line at the Denver Elections Division on Monday morning to defend the state’s mail-in ballot system. Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, who appeared at a press conference with U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, Gov. Jared Polis, Secretary of State Jena Griswold and Denver Clerk and Recorder…
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Family of Elijah McClain files federal wrongful death lawsuit
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The family of 23-year-old Elijah McClain filed a 106-page civil lawsuit in federal court Tuesday against the city of Aurora and 15 other defendants, including Aurora police officers, a paramedic and the medical director of Aurora Fire Rescue. McClain died after a police stop on Aug. 24, 2019, after a 911 call which reported him…
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Polis signs historic police reform bill, among first in the nation
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There were speeches of jubilation, gratitude and even anger Friday, as Colorado became one of the first states in the nation to act on police reform in the wake of George Floyd’s death. “It’s now the law in Colorado!” Governor Jared Polis yelled immediately after signing Senate Bill 217 into law. Family members of victims,…
