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Jeffco judge wrongfully terminated father’s rights as he struggled to connect to hearing, appeals court rules
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A Jefferson County judge declined to postpone proceedings and instead terminated a father’s parental rights as he struggled to connect to the virtual hearing, a decision the state’s second-highest court has now reversed. District Court Judge Ann Gail Meinster should have granted the request to postpone the February 2021 hearing, a three-judge panel of the…
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State Supreme Court drops case over parental deadlock in school choice
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The Colorado Supreme Court will not hear an appeal that questioned whether judges may decide where children are to attend school when their divorced parents cannot agree. The court’s dismissal of Hakiowskie Flores’ petition came after a Jefferson County judge reluctantly agreed with a recent decision out of the state’s Court of Appeals that found…
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Jeffco prosecutor crossed line, appeals court finds in reversing sex abuse conviction
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A Jefferson County prosecutor, speaking to the jury, improperly and repeatedly used a defendant’s silence in a police-recorded phone call against him, the Court of Appeals decided last week in ordering a new trial. Although the Fifth Amendment prohibits prosecutors from drawing conclusions about a defendant’s guilt if he exercises his right to remain silent,…
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Jeffco’s superintendent has some ideas about preventing school shootings — and none of them involve gun control or armed teachers
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Superintendent Jason Glass of the Jefferson County school district isn’t interested in talking about gun control in the wake of yet another deadly school shooting. Home of Columbine High School, Jefferson County is no stranger to these tragedies or their aftermath, and Glass doesn’t think calls for restricting firearms will get any more traction this…
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Noonan: Three strong candidates for CD7 can set a vision for Dems across the nation
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The 2018 election will scramble the political scene in Colorado. Two Democratic U.S. representatives are vying for governor. Three prominent state Democratic legislators from Jefferson and Adams counties will go after the open 7th Congressional District seat vacated by US Rep. Ed Perlmutter. Brittany Pettersen will leave her House District 28 seat in Lakewood. Andy…
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YESTERYEAR: Romer takes on Union of Taxpayers’ chief over TABOR refunds
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Thirty Years Ago this Week in The Colorado Statesman … On election night, 1987, incumbent Mayor Federico Peña went on to capture 79,674 votes for 51 percent of the total vote compared to challenger Don Bain’s 49 percent. The highlight (or lowlight) of the evening, was Peña’s sweltering downtown headquarters where 1,000 people crammed into…
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Democrat Andy Kerr formally announces he’s running for Congressional District 7 seat
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“My name is Andy Kerr, and I am running for Congress,” the Democratic state senator told a crowd of family, friends, colleagues and supporters filling the gymnasium as he began his speech at Dunstan Middle School in Lakewood on Wednesday afternoon. It’s the same way U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter — at that time a former…
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Lakewood Democrat Andy Kerr plans to announce run for 7th Congressional District seat Wednesday
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With a promise to fight for education, jobs and the Colorado way of life, state Sen. Andy Kerr, a Lakewood Democrat, plans to announce on Wednesday afternoon he’s running for the 7th Congressional District seat represented by Democratic U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter, who declared Sunday he’s running for governor in next year’s election. “The working families…
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Letters: Jeffco School Board woes
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Editor: Well, they finally went and did it. The Jefferson County School Board decided last month to fire Jeffco Public Schools Superintendent Dan McMinimee, much to the chagrin of what seems to be the majority of the citizens of Jefferson County. Mr. McMinimee has performed admirably during his tenure with Jeffco Schools and the board has…
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Letter: Leonard ‘dust-up’ evidence of media bias?
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Editor: Does anyone think that Rep. Tim Leonard’s travails have anything to do with the education of his children? Does a dust-up over iPad usage warrant 14 days in the slammer? If Leonard had told the child to ‘turn of the TV while doing homework’, could that have escalated into a term in Super-Max or Guantanamo?…
