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Judge refuses to toss $500,000 jury verdict against Denver officer over wrongful arrest at DIA
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A federal judge upheld a jury’s $500,000 verdict and finding of liability against a Denver police officer whose faulty probable cause statement led to the wrongful arrest of a man at Denver International Airport. After a jury earlier this year determined Officer Karl Coleman acted maliciously when he erroneously wrote on legal paperwork that Juan…
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Judge finds no constitutional violation for man detained at Aurora mall, grants immunity to officers
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Aurora police officers did not violate a man’s constitutional rights by detaining him for 16 minutes to issue him a no-trespassing order, a federal judge ruled after finding no similar cases had proclaimed such conduct clearly unconstitutional. William Montgomery sued four police officers for allegedly violating the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures.…
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Colorado Springs officers used reasonable force in pointing gun at man, 10th Circuit finds
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Colorado Springs police acted reasonably in pointing their guns at a man and warning they would shoot him, the federal appeals court based in Denver has ruled, citing officer safety concerns. Michael James Bosman claimed officers had used excessive force tantamount to an arrest when they ordered him out of a vehicle at gunpoint without…
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Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters faces arrest warrant on obstruction charge after fracas in bagel shop
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An arrest warrant on a misdemeanor charge of obstructing a peace officer was issued Wednesday for Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who is accused of interfering with authorities attempting to serve a search warrant on her a day earlier at a bagel shop in Grand Junction. Her legal team, in response, said law enforcers used “excessive…
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Court recommends dismissing claims against top Mesa County judge for prolonged detention
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A federal magistrate judge recommended dismissing the claims against Mesa County’s top judge over his alleged role in a woman’s two-week detention without bail, a right guaranteed in Colorado’s constitution. At the same time, U.S. Magistrate Judge Nina Y. Wang on Jan. 27 recommended against dismissing one of Michelle Reynolds’ constitutional claims against the sheriffs of…
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Federal judge declines to drop free speech lawsuit against Colorado Springs police
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It is possible that Colorado Springs officers violated a man’s First Amendment rights when they arrested him for screaming obscenities at police, a federal judge decided. As a result, the civil lawsuit from Michael Sexton will proceed, based in part on one officer’s admission that he arrested Sexton simply for saying the F-word repeatedly. “Under…
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Man settles with Mesa County’s top judge for $100,000 over wrongful arrests
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A man who was wrongfully arrested seven times based on an outdated protection order has settled his lawsuit with the chief judge of Mesa County for $100,000. Attorneys for Elson Foster indicated the Colorado Department of Corrections had also agreed to provide weekly reports to the judicial branch about inmates released from custody or who…
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Federal judge grants immunity to officers in Aurora arrest despite possible constitutional violation
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Although police officers had not demonstrated why they had a right to be in a man’s Aurora home without a warrant and a jury could find a constitutional violation occurred, a federal judge said he had no choice but to give the officers immunity. Law enforcement personnel from Denver and Aurora arrested Marquise Harris outside…
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State Supreme Court says man’s post-arrest conduct cannot count toward resisting arrest
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A Mesa County man was under arrest at the time officers placed him in handcuffs, meaning his conduct after that point could not be used against him to prove he was guilty of resisting arrest, the state Supreme Court decided Monday. The ruling reverses the state’s second-highest court, which determined that because Weston Jefferson Thomas went…
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Fort Morgan city manager pleads not guilty to alleged assault
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Fort Morgan City Manager Jeff Wells was arrested over the weekend on suspicion of assault, a spokesperson for the 13th Judicial District attorney’s office said. Wells was taken into custody Saturday on suspicion of third-degree assault, a misdemeanor. The charge is related to an incident from July 2017, but the DA’s office learned about it…
