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Colorado’s federal trial court selects 2 new magistrate judges
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Colorado’s federal trial court announced on Monday that it has named public defender Timothy P. O’Hara and prosecutor Cyrus Y. Chung to be its newest magistrate judges, filling one current and one pending vacancy. Unlike district judges, who the president nominates and the U.S. Senate confirms, magistrate judges serve eight-year terms following an appointment by…
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Colorado’s federal trial court experienced record trial delay, historic acquittal rate in 2022
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Colorado’s federal trial court last year saw civil cases take an unprecedented amount of time – more than 43 months since filing, on average – to reach a jury trial, as well as a historically high rate of acquittals in criminal cases. On Aug. 30, U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael E. Hegarty presented a wide-ranging statistical report about…
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2 new federal judges named for Colorado
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Susan Prose and Kathryn Starnella, two attorneys with the top federal and state prosecutors’ offices in Colorado, will be the next judges to serve on the federal trial court based in Denver. The U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado on Monday announced that the two women have been appointed as magistrate judges. A…
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Colorado’s U.S. attorney, top public defender discuss priorities, including fentanyl, in joint appearance
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The top federal prosecutor and public defender in Colorado appeared together in downtown Denver on Thursday for a discussion that touched on criminal justice priorities like the fentanyl crisis, as well as the Biden administration’s judicial nominees and their efforts to diversity their offices. Although U.S. Attorney Cole Finegan and Federal Public Defender Virginia Grady are within…
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State prosecutors look to federal distribution law as model for combating fentanyl
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While state law provides prosecutors with the ability to charge for murder, manslaughter or criminally negligent homicide, some district attorneys wish they had another tool to go after those who distribute fentanyl resulting in a person’s death. “Proving that someone distributed a drug with the intent to kill someone else is very hard,” said Brian…
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Boebert faces calls for federal, state investigations into abuse of authority allegations
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A comedy writer and documentary filmmaker is asking federal and state authorities to investigate U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, accusing the Silt Republican of abusing her position to squelch a political critic. In letters delivered in late October to the acting U.S. attorney for Colorado and Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, Toby Morton, a Tulsa, Oklahoma, resident,…
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Senate confirms Cole Finegan to be U.S. attorney for Colorado
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The U.S. Senate on Friday confirmed Cole Finegan without objection to be the top federal prosecutor in Colorado. Finegan is a former Denver City Attorney and chief of staff to former Mayor John Hickenlooper. Currently a managing partner at the international law firm Hogan Lovells, he was one of three candidates who Hickenlooper and Colorado’s…
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YESTERYEAR: Owens takes steps to fix transportation budget shortfall, Amendment 41 derails three legislators
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Fifteen Years Ago this week in the Colorado Statesman … The Colorado Children’s Chorale performance at the White House was proclaimed a riveting success. Thirty-two Colorado children performed at the private event, an experience the now-adults have surely not forgotten. “The Holiday Open House” event was for White House staff, members of Congress, the Secret…
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YESTERYEAR: Colorado Supreme Court overturns death penalty statute
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Twenty-five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … The lawyer who led a successful constitutional challenge against Colorado’s death penalty law said no one should have been surprised that the Colorado Supreme Court overturned the statute, pointing out that some legislators had warned it was defective when it passed. University of Denver law professor…
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The Hot Sheet, February 9, 2016
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By TCS Publisher & Editor-in-Chief Jared Wright@_JaredWright_ Tuesday, February 9, 2016 DENVER – Happy New Hampshire Primary Tuesday, everyone! (Is there something else happening today?) Some folks in the Granite State have already voted, including in communities Dixville Notch (nine voters — all employees of the Balsams Grand Resort Hotel), Harts Location and Millsfield. According to New Hampshire…
