18th judicial district
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Colorado Supreme Court recognizes defendants may appeal magistrates’ probable cause rulings
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Addressing an issue never previously decided, the Colorado Supreme Court clarified on Monday that criminal defendants do have the right to appeal a magistrate’s decision that probable cause exists to hold a trial on the charged offenses. Colorado law provides for preliminary hearings, whose purpose is to screen out cases where prosecutors do not have probable…
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Colorado Supreme Court recognizes defendants may appeal magistrates’ probable cause rulings
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Addressing an issue never previously decided, the Colorado Supreme Court clarified on Monday that criminal defendants do have the right to appeal a magistrate’s decision that probable cause exists to hold a trial on the charged offenses. Colorado law provides for preliminary hearings, whose purpose is to screen out cases where prosecutors do not have probable…
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Eagle County convictions reversed for prosecutors’ misconduct
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Colorado’s second-highest court reversed an Eagle County man’s convictions earlier this month because a trial judge permitted a pair of prosecutors – including one who is now running for district attorney – to misstate the law on self-defense to jurors. A jury acquitted Robert Fergus-Jean of more serious offenses like assault and attempted murder, but convicted him…
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Eagle County convictions reversed for prosecutors’ misconduct
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Colorado’s second-highest court reversed an Eagle County man’s convictions earlier this month because a trial judge permitted a pair of prosecutors — including one who is now running for district attorney — to misstate the law on self-defense to jurors. A jury acquitted Robert Fergus-Jean of more serious offenses like assault and attempted murder, but convicted him…
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Eagle County convictions reversed for prosecutors’ misconduct
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Colorado’s second-highest court reversed an Eagle County man’s convictions earlier this month because a trial judge permitted a pair of prosecutors — including one who is now running for district attorney — to misstate the law on self-defense to jurors. A jury acquitted Robert Fergus-Jean of more serious offenses like assault and attempted murder, but convicted him…
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Colorado Supreme Court drops ‘catch-all’ question about prospective judges’ backgrounds from application
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Weeks before an Arapahoe County judge admitted he failed to disclose his affair with an employee when he was applying to be a judge, the Colorado Supreme Court dropped a question from the state’s judicial application form that asked candidates to disclose problematic information from their pasts – and provided grounds for discipline if they were…
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Colorado Supreme Court to decide whether life without parole for non-triggerman is constitutional
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The Colorado Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will consider whether it is unconstitutional for a defendant to serve a sentence of life without parole for murder when he was not the one who caused the victim’s death. The case out of El Paso County implicates Colorado’s “felony murder” law, which, until recently, provided…
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Divided state Supreme Court says judges cannot review discipline of judicial workers
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In an extraordinary decision pitting one part of the state’s judicial branch against another part, the Colorado Supreme Court decided on Monday, by 4-3, that trial judges are not permitted to hear disciplinary appeals involving judicial employees – an option afforded to other government workers. The majority of justices believed the court system’s personnel rules made…
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Trail Mix: The road to Colorado’s 2018 election, Feb. 11 edition
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I’LL SEE YOUR BERNIE AND RAISE A JOYCE FOSTER … The battle of the bold-faced names is on in the House District 9 Democratic primary, where three-term incumbent state Rep. Paul Rosenthal is facing two candidates seeking to dislodge him from the southeast Denver seat. Less than a week had passed since Bernie Sanders –…
