janice davidson
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Divided appeals court finds Gilpin County juror not biased against defendant
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In a divided ruling on Thursday, Colorado’s second-highest court determined a Gilpin County judge acted appropriately by keeping a woman on a criminal jury after her admission that she “would need to hear that reason why” the defendant did not take the witness stand. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals acknowledged a quirk…
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Appeals court finds no problem with sleeping juror at Arapahoe County trial
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Colorado’s second-highest court last week saw no problem with an Arapahoe County judge’s lack of further inquiry after the defendant’s lawyer claimed she saw a juror sleeping through the defense’s closing arguments. Although Amber A. Threlkel’s lawyer alleged one juror was “sleeping throughout a significant portion of my closing argument” at Threlkel’s 2019 trial, District…
