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Election Preview 2018 | Voters to choose new attorney general, treasurer
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After the November election, besides a new governor, Colorado also will have a new chief legal officer and a new state financial manager. The attorney general seat is open because the Republican who currently holds the office, Cynthia Coffman, ran for governor instead, though she failed to secure her party’s nomination in the primary. That…
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Colo. Supreme Court upholds re-sentencing law for juveniles over Brauchler challenge
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The Colorado Supreme Court has upheld a law that allows judges to reduce the sentences of prisoners serving life without parole for crimes they committed as juveniles. Monday’s ruling came in the case of Curtis Brooks, convicted of murder in a 1995 slaying, when he was 15. When Brooks requested a resentencing hearing, 18th Judicial…
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Colo. left out of Justice Dept. meeting on social-media political bias
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Colorado so far does not have a seat at the table for a politically-fraught Sept. 25 meeting between U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and a bipartisan group of 24 state attorneys general to discuss consumer-protection and antitrust complaints against social media companies. Sessions first invited just Republican attorneys general to the meeting, which will include…
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AG candidate Brauchler hit by car while riding bike
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George Brauchler, the current 18th Judicial District attorney and a hopeful for Colorado attorney general, is nursing a broken pinkie after he was hit by a car while riding his bike Tuesday morning. “At the end of the day, I’m just lucky that the injuries that I have aren’t worse,” he said. Brauchler said the…
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Colo. Republicans hit the road on a unity tour
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They quarreled like politicians on the campaign trail before Tuesday’s primary. On Thursday, Republican candidates for governor applauded nominee Walker Stapleton in a series of small rallies up the Front Range. To try to gum up the GOP unity, the state Democratic Party emailed reporters a list of quotes his GOP primary rivals said about…
