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Colorado legal experts weigh in on ‘truth in sentencing’ measure
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Colorado voters earlier this month approved a ballot measure that increases the amount of time an individual convicted of certain violent crimes must serve before being eligible for parole and removes parole eligibility for those with two previous violent crime convictions. Proposition 128 passed with over 62% of the vote, which proponents said reflects Coloradans’ desire for…
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Prosecutorial misconduct, error-prone judge’s decision prompt appeals court to overturn homicide conviction
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Misconduct by two prosecutors and a Douglas County judge’s decision to bar crucial testimony prompted Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday to reverse a woman’s vehicular homicide conviction. Jurors convicted Jennifer Lea Woodruff of killing her coworker, Christopher Roberts, in a car accident along Interstate 25. The defense’s theory was that Woodruff’s medical condition caused her…
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‘Tough’ or ‘soft’ on crime? That framing misses the point, experts say | COVER
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Amid the often-polarizing debates over crime at the state Capitol, the officers and experts who actually deal with criminal cases on a daily basis argued that to judge Colorado based on whether it is “soft” or “hard” entirely misses the point. The goal, they said, is to strike just the right balance. Veer too far…
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Ex-Douglas County judge’s errors stack up as appeals court reverses another conviction
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Colorado’s second-highest court last week overturned a Douglas County defendant’s convictions because of an error by former District Court Judge Patricia Herron, continuing a pattern of reversals in her cases. Herron retired late last year, having been an 18th Judicial District Court judge since 2016. Earlier in her career, she worked in the Colorado Attorney…
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Third campaign finance complaint filed against GOP AG candidate’s campaign
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Republican attorney general candidate John Kellner is facing a third campaign finance complaint, a benchmark among those seeking to become Colorado’s chief legal officer. No attorney general or other candidate for that office has more than one complaint in the 22 years TRACER, the campaign finance database run by the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office, has tracked…
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Secretary of State says lobbyist contribution to AG candidate may violate campaign finance law
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An initial review by the Secretary of State’s elections division determined that a campaign contribution from lobbyist Michael Fields to Attorney General Republican candidate John Kellner may have violated state campaign finance laws. However, the initial review also gave Kellner an opportunity to “cure,” or fix the violation, which Kellner has already done by returning…
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Attorney General Phil Weiser draws challenge from Republican DA John Kellner
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Republican District Attorney John Kellner, the top prosecutor in Colorado’s 18th Judicial District, declared on Thursday that he’s challenging Democratic Attorney General Phil Weiser, who is seeking a second term. Kellner announced his long-anticipated run in a Colorado Politics opinion article that attempts to link Weiser to the state’s rising crime rate. “Make no mistake,…
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DEA: Drug sting shows scope of fentanyl flood in Colorado
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An eight-month drug sting netted 110,000 pills laced with fentanyl, scores of long guns and handguns, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, body armor and even hand grenades, law enforcement officials from at least a dozen metro agencies announced Wednesday. David Olesky, acting special agent for the Denver Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration, said…
