dennis hall
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Colorado Supreme Court accepts 2 cases on capital punishment, racially-biased juror
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The Colorado Supreme Court agreed to hear two criminal appeals on Monday that question whether defendants are entitled to bail for crimes that formerly qualified for a death sentence, and whether a Black man convicted in an overwhelmingly white county deserves a new trial because one juror admitted he “didn’t want diversity.” At least three…
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In rare move, appeals court reverses itself to concede unlawful search
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After taking an extraordinary third look at a criminal appeal out of Gilpin County, Colorado’s second-highest court this week made the rare move of withdrawing its prior decisions and reversing the defendant’s drug conviction. Nearly 11 months after it first concluded a sheriff’s deputy lawfully seized a sunglasses case from Robert Scott Schweizer’s van that contained methamphetamine, a…
