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Denver judge who once prosecuted defendant was not biased, appeals court rules
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A man serving 414 years in prison has not shown his lawyer was ineffective for failing to ask the trial judge – who previously prosecuted the defendant – to recuse herself, Colorado’s second-highest court ruled on Thursday. Relatedly, a three-member panel for the Court of Appeals agreed the judge was not actually biased against Scott Shorts, despite her…
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Oral arguments, caseloads and bad lawyering: Appellate judges and justices provide peek behind judicial curtain
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Nearly all members of the Colorado Supreme Court and half of the judges on the Court of Appeals convened with attorneys on Friday to give a behind-the-scenes tour of the inner workings of the judiciary, and to voice concern about the escalating number of issues they are being asked to decide in appeals. The topics…
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Colorado appeals court upholds man’s convictions despite juror who ‘wouldn’t give him a fair trial’
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Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday declined to overturn a man’s convictions for sexually assaulting multiple children despite one juror disclosing that she “wouldn’t give him a fair trial.” Joseph Lee Davis is serving a sentence in excess of 600 years for grooming, raping or enticing seven boys over a span of two decades. Davis raised…
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Appeals court says judge, DA, corrections agency could blow past deadlines, still send man to prison
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Colorado’s second-highest court determined last month that an Arapahoe County judge, prosecutors and corrections officials could disregard the deadlines in state law and still have the ability to send a youthful offender to prison. The state’s Youthful Offender System enables defendants who were at least 18 at the time of their criminal offense but younger…