archuleta county
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Appeals court overturns Archuleta County judge’s faulty child neglect ruling
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Colorado’s second-highest court agreed an Archuleta County judge abruptly and wrongly deemed a man’s children neglected after he did not appear for a hearing, even though there was no basis for such a ruling. The county opened a child neglect case for two children based on the mother’s alleged substance abuse. Their father, identified as…
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Colorado justices rule plaintiffs can use open records law for evidence when suing government
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The Colorado Supreme Court decided on Monday that nothing in the state’s open records law prevents a person from seeking documents from public entities at the same time they are suing the government in court. Although the justices agreed that a plaintiff properly used the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) to seek a tape recording…
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Colorado justices cautious of letting litigants make open records requests while suing governments
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Members of the Colorado Supreme Court grappled on Tuesday with two competing principles: honoring public access to government records, on the one hand, while preventing litigants from deluging public bodies with open records requests at the same time they are suing them. Previously, the state’s second-highest court ruled that plaintiffs are not forbidden from using…
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10th Circuit: Archuleta sheriff’s officials committed constitutional violation by seizing home for 8 hours
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An Archuleta County sheriff’s detective who barred a man and his family from entering their home for nearly eight hours without a warrant committed a constitutional violation that required the eventual evidence of a firearm offense to be thrown out, the federal appeals court based in Denver ruled on Tuesday. Although Corban Josiah Elmore cooperated…
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Supreme Court orders Archuleta sheriff to turn over video surveillance of attorney-client meetings to defendant
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The Colorado Supreme Court has ordered the Archuleta County Sheriff’s Office to turn over the videos it recorded of a defendant’s jailhouse meetings with his attorneys – revelations that already led to one mistrial and could result in sanctions or the removal of the district attorney’s office from the murder case going forward. In an…
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Judge rules Archuleta, La Plata counties may be held liable for detainee’s suicide
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A federal judge has refused to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit against La Plata and Archuleta counties for the suicide of a 21-year-old man who hung himself in jail and remained undiscovered for more than two hours, despite being on suicide watch. Saul Hernandez de la Torre was arrested in Archuleta County but housed in…
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Navajo State Park completes $139,000 repair project
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Colorado Parks and Wildlife completed a repair project Friday to assist boating facilities in Archuleta County’s Navajo State Park. The $139,000 project replaced the cables and repaired the shackles connected to a grid of 29 mooring balls in the Mooring Cove area of the Navajo Reservoir. The gird had deteriorated after years of use. The…
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BARTELS: Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams hits the road again
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Here’s Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams’ version of spring break: Visited nine county clerks. Checked out five newspaper offices. Attended three Go Code Colorado competitions. Spoke at one Club 20 event. And all in four days. Williams began his trip Wednesday morning in Greeley, where he met with Weld County Clerk Carly Koppes. By late…
