Author: MICHAEL KARLIK Colorado Politics
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Appeals court overturns Adams County drug convictions due to unconstitutional police conduct
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Colorado’s second-highest court overturned a man’s drug convictions and 25-year prison sentence on Thursday after concluding two Northglenn police officers unconstitutionally transformed a traffic stop into a drug investigation without reasonable suspicion of a crime. Clifton E. McRae, who was originally stopped for making an illegal turn, repeatedly declined to consent to a search of…
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Appeals judge decries inability for defendant to challenge his ‘three-strikes’ sentence
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A member of Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday registered his discomfort with a defendant’s inability to challenge his lengthy prison sentence that was a product of the state’s “three strikes” law. Obdulio Arvelo is serving 48 years in prison for a 2011 theft-related conviction. The sentence resulted from Arvelo’s designation as a “habitual criminal,” meaning…
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Denver school board candidate assails campaign cash as spending soars past $1.3M
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Radhika Nath, a Denver school board candidate, on Thursday decried her opponents’ lopsided fundraising and called on state lawmakers to institute campaign finance reforms for school board races. “If you’re pouring this kind of money into the race that you’re getting from corporate interests or your own funding, who are you serving? It’s not the…
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Lamborn reportedly denied access to impeachment inquiry testimony
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Three U.S. House of Representatives committees investigating the President Donald Trump impeachment inquiry denied Colorado’s U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn the ability to read closed-door testimony of former State Department Official Kurt Volker, according to a Wednesday tweet from the congressman. “Impeachment is a serious process. It should be open, fair and transparent,” said Lamborn, a Republican…
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Colorado congressional delegation reacts to death of U.S. Rep. Cummings
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U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, a Maryland Democrat, died on Thursday at the age of 68. Cummings, who represented Baltimore in Congress for more than 23 years, was the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, leading recent investigations into the Trump administration. Here is what his colleagues in Colorado’s congressional delegation have said about…
