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Appeals court reverses murder conviction after Denver judge violated public trial right
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Colorado’s second-highest court reversed a defendant’s murder conviction on Thursday because a Denver judge violated his constitutional right to a public trial. Due to an unusually large jury pool at Edward R. Sandoval’s 2022 trial, Chief Judge Christopher J. Baumann did not allow observers to be present in his courtroom during jury selection. Although the…
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Durango & Silverton loses bid to avoid La Plata County’s land regulation at train station
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The Colorado Public Utilities Commission correctly determined La Plata County had the power to regulate the improvements to a tourist train station, the state Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday in rejecting the arguments of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad Company. The issues brought to the Supreme Court largely stemmed from whether the county correctly…
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Durango & Silverton land-use dispute aired to Colorado Supreme Court
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After two trial judges and the state’s Public Utilities Commission confirmed La Plata County can regulate the physical changes made around a tourist train station, the Colorado Supreme Court heard arguments about whether to uphold the proceedings that have unfolded over the past four years. “We really wanted the county to get out of our…
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Divided appeals court upholds $111,600 restitution order in Denver murder case
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Colorado’s second-highest court last week upheld a Denver judge’s crime victim restitution order as valid, but with continued disagreement over how to apply the Supreme Court’s recent guidance about the state’s restitution law. In Colorado, when a convicted defendant is required to pay financial restitution, prosecutors typically must provide the requested amount by the time…
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Polis, corrections director immune from man’s lawsuit over prison work program, appeals court rules
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Gov. Jared Polis and the former director of the Colorado Department of Corrections are immune from an incarcerated man’s lawsuit for money damages over the state’s prison work program, the Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday. John Patrick Fletcher, who resides at Buena Vista Correctional Facility, sought roughly $2 million from Polis and Dean Williams,…
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Polis, corrections director immune from man’s lawsuit over prison work program, appeals court rules
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Gov. Jared Polis and the former director of the Colorado Department of Corrections are immune from an incarcerated man’s lawsuit for money damages over the state’s prison work program, the Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday. John Patrick Fletcher, who resides at Buena Vista Correctional Facility, sought roughly $2 million from Polis and Dean Williams,…
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Polis, corrections director immune from man’s lawsuit over prison work program, appeals court rules
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Gov. Jared Polis and the former director of the Colorado Department of Corrections are immune from an incarcerated man’s lawsuit for money damages over the state’s prison work program, the Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday. John Patrick Fletcher, who resides at Buena Vista Correctional Facility, sought roughly $2 million from Polis and Dean Williams,…
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Colorado appeals court finds no error in handling of Planned Parenthood mass shooting lawsuit
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Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday determined a trial judge did not unfairly limit the types of evidence jurors could hear when they rendered a verdict that Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains was not liable for a 2015 mass shooting at its Colorado Springs clinic. In 2021, a Denver jury decided Planned Parenthood did not…
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Colorado appeals court clarifies meaning of ‘tips,’ ‘sales employee’ in wage theft case
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Recognizing the terms were not defined in state law, Colorado’s second-highest court last month clarified that “tips” and “gratuities” are payments voluntarily given by customers beyond the cost of a service, and that a worker whose job is to serve food and beverages is not a “sales employee.” The immediate consequence of the Court of…
