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Colorado’s courts by the numbers: 2022 in review
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Following the COVID-19 pandemic’s disruption of the justice system, Colorado’s state and federal courts are still experiencing lower volumes of cases, with the drop being particularly acute for some courts more than others. Colorado Politics examined the workloads of various courts in 2022, with the federal system reporting calendar year statistics and the state judiciary…
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Oral arguments, caseloads and bad lawyering: Appellate judges and justices provide peek behind judicial curtain
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Nearly all members of the Colorado Supreme Court and half of the judges on the Court of Appeals convened with attorneys on Friday to give a behind-the-scenes tour of the inner workings of the judiciary, and to voice concern about the escalating number of issues they are being asked to decide in appeals. The topics…
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Colorado Supreme Court rules, 5-1, against shifting explanations in race-based juror dismissals
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In accordance with the U.S. Supreme Court’s longstanding prohibition on intentional racial discrimination in jury selection, Colorado’s highest court ruled, 5-1, on Monday that trial judges may not consider after-the-fact explanations for dismissing jurors of color that were not raised at trial. The majority agreed that a new trial is warranted for Theodore Israel Madrid,…
