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Colorado Supreme Court upholds man’s child enticement conviction
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The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday concluded the state’s second-highest court wrongly overturned a man’s Jefferson County conviction for a child sex offense, determining the evidence was sufficient after all to find him guilty. James Clayton Johnson is serving six years to life in prison after jurors convicted him of enticement. The offense requires someone to…
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Colorado justices ponder whether evidence enough to convict man of sex crime
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The Colorado Supreme Court considered this week whether Jefferson County prosecutors actually had enough evidence to convict a man of a child sex crime, based on a one-minute, sexually suggestive conversation for which he is serving six years to life in prison. Previously, the state’s Court of Appeals concluded James Clayton Johnson’s alleged comments toward…
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Colorado Supreme Court takes up 3 criminal appeals, ‘Indian child’ case
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The Colorado Supreme Court announced on Monday it will hear three criminal appeals and one case exploring the government’s obligation to determine whether children in welfare proceedings qualify for the longstanding protections granted to American Indians. At least three of the court’s seven members must consent to take up a case on appeal. The criminal…
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Jeffco prosecutors did not have enough evidence to convict man, appeals court rules
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Colorado’s second-highest court overturned a man’s conviction for sex crimes against a child, determining last week that prosecutors did not have enough evidence to prove his guilt. James C. Johnson disputed at trial and on appeal that he was even the person who pulled a pickup truck alongside a 10-year-old girl in Lakewood and made…
