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Appeals court slams failure to document custody of drug evidence in Colorado Springs case
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A man will receive a new trial after the state’s second-highest court ruled that prosecutors failed to show Colorado Springs police continuously kept track of a bag of white powder, with one officer acknowledging he retrieved it from the ground and never saw it again until trial. Three judges on a panel of the Court…
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Colorado to surpass 2020 overdose death toll
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Colorado is on track to surpass its record-breaking overdose death toll from last year, state data show, with fentanyl continuing to play a larger and deadlier role in the state’s spiraling overdose crisis and even as lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies and opioid manufacturers begin to wind down. Total data for 2021 is not yet available, state…
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Drug overdose deaths across Colorado drop for the first time in years
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Drug overdose deaths across Colorado eased slightly in 2018 for the first time in years, led by a drop in prescription painkiller deaths that have been a root cause of the opioid epidemic. Across the state, 974 people died from drug overdoses last year – a 38-person drop from the state’s record death toll set…
