colorado courts
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‘It never ends’: Colorado lawmaker hopes for justice as court considers retrial in son’s murder
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More than 18 years after Javad Marshall-Fields was killed, his mother, state Sen. Rhonda Fields, said she is still waiting for the fight for justice to end. Marshall-Fields and his fiancée, Vivian Wolfe, were murdered in Aurora in 2005. The two 22-year-olds were fatally shot days before Marshall-Fields was scheduled to testify as a witness to the 2004…
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More than a half dozen Colorado judges still haven’t filed financial disclosure
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Colorado Watch logo-new (copy) More than a half dozen Colorado judges are still delinquent in updating missing personal financial disclosure statements with state officials, despite a Denver Gazette investigation that flagged them about the problem two weeks ago. There were 15 judges delinquent as of Thursday – one of them on the Appellate Court bench – but the…
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ACLU of Colorado calls on local governments to let those with felony convictions run for office
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The American Civil Liberties Union sent letters to 12 Colorado governments Wednesday, demanding they stop barring people with felony convictions from running for public office. This warning comes after the ACLU successfully sued Aurora last year for the city charter’s prohibition of former felons from holding elected office. An Arapahoe County judge permanently blocked Aurora…
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Environmental groups file motion to intervene in lawsuit against state over air pollution monitoring
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Community and environmental groups in the area around the Suncor Energy refinery in Commerce City filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit brought by Suncor against the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s Air Pollution Control Division. GreenLatinos, the Elyria-Swansea Neighborhood Association, Healthy Air and Water Colorado, Womxn from the Mountain, Conservation Colorado…
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CPR sues coroner for refusing to release amended autopsy of Elijah McClain
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Colorado Public Radio filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Adams County coroner for refusing to release an amended autopsy of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after being violently restrained by police and sedated in 2019. Colorado Public Radio reported that coroner Monica Broncucia-Jordan changed the official autopsy report for McClain after receiving…
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Biden nominates Gordon Gallagher as Colorado’s U.S. District Court judge
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President Joe Biden on Friday named Gordon Gallagher a federal judicial nominee for the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. Gallagher is a part-time U.S. magistrate judge for Colorado in Grand Junction, a role he has served since 2012. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Gallagher will serve on the court once…
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DAs: Polis undercut system by slashing trucker’s sentence
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Two Colorado district attorneys slammed Gov. Jared Polis in a letter, saying he undercut the justice system by reducing the 110-year prison sentence of Rogel Aguilera-Mederos to 10 years after the truck driver was convicted of killing four people in a crash on Interstate 70 in 2019. The five-page letter was sent by district attorneys…
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Former Colorado city councilman sentenced to probation for child sex crimes
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A former Craig city councilman will avoid jail time after he was caught trying to solicit sex from an underaged girl online. Brian MacKenzie, 50, was sentenced Friday to 10 years of probation in Colorado’s Sex Offender Intensive Supervision Program. He will register as a sex offender and participate in sex offender treatment, the First…
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Nicolais: Colorado bail reform leading the way
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Years ago I defended a pro bono client against battery and disorderly conduct charges. He worked a blue-collar construction job, tried hard to take care of his children, and had a lengthy, but distant criminal record. When we went in for his arraignment, the prosecutor offered to drop the battery charge in exchange for a…
