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Appeals court says tenants must strictly comply with law to sue landlords over hazardous conditions
Strict compliance with the law is necessary if tenants, who typically lack legal representation, wish to sue landlords for shoddy living conditions, Colorado’s second-highest court ruled last week. In a 2-1 decision, a three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals agreed a Denver man could not hold his landlord liable for an uninhabitable apartment because…
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Appeals court reverses 10-year sentence due to Arapahoe County judge’s error
An Arapahoe County judge declined to give a key instruction to jurors in a man’s assault trial, prompting the state’s second-highest court to reverse the conviction and order a new trial. Luis Salinas-Martinez received a 10-year sentence after a jury convicted him in 2019 of assaulting his roommate. Although the offense was a class 4…
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Colorado appeals court upholds $27,500 owed on Biden-Trump election bet
A Denver man owes a Colorado Springs man $27,500 from a bet the two placed on the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, Colorado’s second-highest court agreed on Thursday. Richmond Lee Meyer and Jason Vanstrom were friends for several years through their mutual interest in gambling and the cannabis industry. Prior to election day 2020,…
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Colorado appeals court, 2-1, reverses sex assault convictions due to testimony about victim’s reaction
A Boulder County judge was wrong to permit an alleged victim of sex assault and three of her friends or coworkers to testify about how she changed after the disputed rape, Colorado’s second-highest court ruled last month in reversing the defendant’s convictions. By 2-1, a three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals concluded the victim’s…
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Arapahoe County judge let biased juror serve, prompting reversal of serial rapist’s convictions
A man with a history of raping women, who is serving 136 years in prison, will receive a new trial after the state’s second-highest court concluded an Arapahoe County judge allowed a biased juror to serve in the 2021 trial. On Thursday, a three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals concluded, by 2-1, that it…
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Aurora officer’s search of 17-year-old was unconstitutional, appeals court rules
An Aurora officer lacked proper justification to search a 17-year-old vehicle passenger, and an Arapahoe County judge mistakenly allowed evidence from the search to be used against the teenager, Colorado’s second-highest court ruled last month. During his pat-down of a boy identified by the initials E.J.G., Officer James Snapp uncovered a gun. For possessing a…
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Colorado appeals court finds no discrimination in Jeffco prosecutors’ dismissal of nonwhite jurors
A Jefferson County judge correctly found no racial discrimination was behind prosecutors’ dismissal of two apparently Hispanic jurors, the state’s second-highest court ruled on Thursday, even though some of the prosecution’s reasons did not match with reality and the judge seemed largely concerned about the “long day” when justifying the women’s removal. Under longstanding U.S.…
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Adams County judge wrongly denied defendant’s challenge because he forgot to sign form, appeals court rules
An Adams County judge should not have denied a defendant’s challenge to his convictions because he neglected to sign the bottom of his legal motion, Colorado’s Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday. Uto Essien has filed multiple rounds of claims to protest his 2009 convictions and three-decade prison sentence for crimes related to mortgage fraud.…