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Man settles with Mesa County’s top judge for $100,000 over wrongful arrests
A man who was wrongfully arrested seven times based on an outdated protection order has settled his lawsuit with the chief judge of Mesa County for $100,000.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
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
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
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…
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Denver DA will hand off any case regarding Colorado state Rep. Saine to special prosecutor in Boulder County
Denver District Attorney Beth McCann will hand off any case against Colorado state Rep. Lori Saine, who allegedly carried a loaded firearm into Denver International Airport last week, to a special prosecutor in Boulder County, according to an email sent from her office Tuesday to Colorado Politics. McCann’s office says it requested that the 20th…