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SCOTUS decision on guns continues to reverberate through Boulder County
The fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent rollback of gun safety regulations continued through Colorado on Tuesday, as a federal judge temporarily blocked Boulder County from enforcing its prohibitions on large-capacity magazines and “assault weapons.” U.S. District Court Judge Charlotte N. Sweeney issued a 14-day temporary restraining order against a county ordinance that forbids…
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Judge will extend order blocking Superior’s gun regulations while parties prepare arguments
A federal judge will extend his temporary restraining order that prevents certain new gun safety regulations in the town of Superior from taking effect, while the parties to the legal challenge prepare to make arguments on recently-issued precedent from the U.S. Supreme Court. U.S. District Court Judge Raymond P. Moore agreed on July 22 to…
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SCOTUS gun decision prompts federal judge to block Superior’s new assault weapon regulations
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the town of Superior’s new gun safety rules from taking effect, relying heavily on a weeks-old U.S. Supreme Court decision that narrowed the government’s ability to regulate firearm ownership. On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Raymond P. Moore issued a temporary restraining order lasting 14 days against Superior, even…
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10th Circuit divided on whether judge sentenced Denver man too harshly
When Rhyan Littlejohn-Conner appeared for sentencing before U.S. District Court Senior Judge R. Brooke Jackson in June of last year, he faced a range of 84 to 105 months in prison for the crime of possession of ammunition by a convicted felon. Littlejohn-Conner’s attorney asked the judge for a lesser sentence, saying his client’s use…
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State Supreme Court mulls how much evidence is enough to prove identity in prior convictions
An El Paso County jury convicted Enrique Gorostieta in 2019 for possession of a weapon by a prior offender. To determine he was the same Enrique Gorostieta who had a 2016 drug conviction on his record, jurors heard that the name, birthdate and county matched, and they also received a physical description of the defendant…
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Appeals court endorses daily searches of Denver student under ‘safety plan’
Colorado’s second-highest court has found Denver school security officials acted lawfully by continuing their daily searches of a student with a prior handgun offense, even when the “safety plan” enabling the searches had no expiration date. It has been nearly four decades since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in-school searches do not require probable cause…
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Colorado Supreme Court to review constitutionality of mental health law, ‘straw purchases’ of guns
The Colorado Supreme Court has agreed to hear two appeals challenging the constitutionality of state law as being either vague or in violation of U.S. Supreme Court precedent. The cases have come to the state’s highest court by way of the Court of Appeals, where a panel of three appellate judges declined to label as…
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Colorado Springs officers relied in good faith on unconstitutional warrant, judge finds
Seven months after a federal appeals court said Colorado Springs police obtained an unconstitutionally-broad warrant to uncover weapons in a suspect’s car, a judge has now upheld the search, concluding that officers were acting in good faith. Perry Wayne Suggs Jr. has filed yet another appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th…
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Colorado Rep. Saine will not be charged for carrying concealed firearm into DIA
Colorado state Rep. Lori Saine, R-Dacono, will not be charged for carrying a loaded 9mm handgun into Denver International Airport on Dec. 5, according to the Boulder County district attorney’s office. When TSA authorities questioned her about the gun, Saine said she had “totally forgotten” it was in her purse, according to police reports. “After being mirandized,…
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Denver DA will hand off any case regarding Colorado state Rep. Saine to special prosecutor in Boulder County
Denver District Attorney Beth McCann will hand off any case against Colorado state Rep. Lori Saine, who allegedly carried a loaded firearm into Denver International Airport last week, to a special prosecutor in Boulder County, according to an email sent from her office Tuesday to Colorado Politics. McCann’s office says it requested that the 20th…