expert witness
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State Supreme Court takes up governmental immunity cases for trip-and-fall, speeding officer
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The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to review two appeals questioning the boundaries of the government’s general immunity from civil lawsuits, with one case involving a trip-and-fall in Jefferson County and the other implicating a police officer in Montrose County who killed two people during a pursuit. At least three of the seven members of…
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By 2-1, appeals court reverses Denver murder conviction based on procedural blunder
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A man serving a life sentence for a brutal Denver murder will receive a new trial after Colorado’s second-highest court ruled on Thursday that the original trial judge, prosecutor and defense attorney failed to notice a key witness was never formally authorized as an expert. By 2-1, a panel of the Court of Appeals reversed…