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Appeals court agrees DA can sue Huerfano County sheriff over chronic mishandling of evidence
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Colorado’s second-highest court ruled on Thursday that an elected district attorney was justified in suing the Huerfano County sheriff over persistent problems in evidence handling that compromised numerous prosecutions. Last year, Third Judicial District Attorney Henry Solano obtained a permanent injunction against longtime Sheriff Bruce Newman, in which a trial judge ordered Newman to hand…
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The Bennet-Hickenlooper Court: How 2 senators left their mark on Colorado’s federal bench | COVER STORY
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One month before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, Dana Remus, the incoming White House counsel, sent a letter to senators outlining the new administration’s philosophy for filling certain presidentially appointed roles, including federal trial judgeships. “With respect to U.S. District Court positions,” she wrote, “we are particularly focused on nominating individuals whose legal experiences have been…
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Kato Crews confirmed by Senate to Colorado’s federal trial court
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The U.S. Senate confirmed S. Kato Crews to a judgeship on Colorado’s U.S. District Court on Wednesday by a vote of 51-48, restoring the trial court to its full roster of seven active judges. With Crews’ confirmation, President Joe Biden has now appointed five of the court’s members, marking an unusually high level of turnover during…
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Kato Crews advances out of Senate Judiciary Committee along party lines
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President Joe Biden’s latest nominee to be a federal trial judge in Colorado, S. Kato Crews, advanced out of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday with a party-line vote of 11-10. The committee acted on Crews’ nomination only after U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., returned to Washington, D.C. on Wednesday following an extended absence.…
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Amid Feinstein absence, Colorado judicial nominee in limbo
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For the second week in a row, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday postponed a vote on one of President Joe Biden’s nominees to Colorado’s federal trial court, as the absence of a senior Democratic senator has left the committee evenly divided. U.S. Magistrate Judge S. Kato Crews appeared on the committee’s agenda for…
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Appeals court finds Pueblo judge wrongly withheld officer’s misconduct records
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A Pueblo County judge should have released to the defendant his arresting officer’s disciplinary history for dishonesty and poor evidence-handling, Colorado’s second-highest court ruled on Thursday. District Court Judge Thomas Flesher refused to disclose the officer’s records during the 2020 trial of David Juhl Cox, asserting they were irrelevant and that the officer was “not…
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Colorado lawyers sympathetic toward Kato Crews’ botched answer at confirmation hearing
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After U.S. Magistrate Judge S. Kato Crews drew a blank at his confirmation hearing when asked to describe the holding of a major U.S. Supreme Court decision, the embarrassing lapse quickly generated condemnation online. “ANOTHER Biden judicial nominee flunks basic legal quiz,” tweeted JCN, an advocacy group for conservative judicial nominees. But in Colorado, the…
