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Appeals court finds no discrimination in prosecutor’s removal of Asian juror from murder trial
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Even though an Adams County prosecutor misrepresented the law and the facts when she sought to remove the only Asian juror from a murder trial, Colorado’s second-highest court agreed earlier this month that no racial discrimination occurred. Under longstanding U.S. Supreme Court precedent, intentional race-based discrimination in jury selection is unconstitutional. If a prosecutor tries…
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Judge dismisses man’s lawsuit against Walmart for erroneous shoplifting arrest
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Even though prosecutors ended up dismissing the shoplifting-related charges against an elderly Asian man, he failed to show that Walmart should be liable for its role in his erroneous arrest, a federal judge ruled last month. Meng Uoy Chang asserted a Walmart store in Timnath had violated his rights after employees identified Chang as a…
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INSIGHTS | BLM lost diversity coming to Colorado, others shouldn’t follow
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Diversity was never Grand Junction’s long suit. We knew that two years ago, but nobody wanted to say anything when the Trump administration moved the headquarters for the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado. That was a daisy. The agency controls more than 245 million acres in 12 states, including 8.3 million acres on Colorado’s…
