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Judges speak about public trust and criticism, ICE’s warrantless arrests under scrutiny | COURT CRAWL
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Welcome to Court Crawl, Colorado Politics’ roundup of news from the third branch of government. A handful of federal and state judges spoke last week about trust and communications challenges with the public, plus a federal judge seemed to believe immigration authorities are making warrantless arrests in violation of the law. ‘Put our heads down’…
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‘I do not think we’re in a judicial crisis’: Federal, state judges speak of challenges for judiciary
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Members of Colorado’s federal and state judiciaries spoke on Wednesday about the concerns they see with how the public engages with judges’ work, and about judges’ limited ability to correct misinformation. “Someone goes out there on social media and says, ‘Judge Chung is a terrible person. He got it wrong and I think he needs…
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Colorado justices, appeals judges speak of need to keep heads down amid political attacks
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Two members of the Colorado Supreme Court and three Court of Appeals judges discussed their obligation on Tuesday to refrain from pushing back overtly on political attacks or misrepresentations of their work. Chief Justice Monica M. Márquez also disclosed certain strategies the judicial branch is employing to counter tangible threats to judges’ security. “My concern is…
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Colorado justices side with medical malpractice victim in calculating damages owed
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The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday rejected a doctor’s argument that would have limited the amount of money a patient severely injured at birth would receive for his successful medical malpractice lawsuit two decades later. Under state law, damages in medical malpractice cases are generally capped at $1 million as part of a 1988 reform…
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Colorado Supreme Court considers father’s window to sue over daughter’s injury, death
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Facing a confusing matrix in state law, members of the Colorado Supreme Court attempted to sort out on Wednesday how long a father had to sue after his daughter was rendered unconscious and later died from a vehicle accident. Danielle Nicola was crossing a Grand Junction street one night in November 2018 when a driver…
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Colorado justices weigh calculation of damages to victims of medical malpractice
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Members of the Colorado Supreme Court considered on Tuesday whether a decades-old limitation on medical malpractice awards also creates an absolute restriction on the interest that injured plaintiffs can receive when they prevail at trial. The question affects the balance between fairly compensating people who suffer severe or lifelong injuries from medical negligence, on the…
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Appeals judge raises flag about whether insurance companies can collect restitution after traffic convictions
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A member of Colorado’s second-highest court said on Thursday that she was skeptical insurance companies are entitled to collect crime victim restitution from defendants convicted of misdemeanor traffic offenses, but lawmakers had not provided clear direction one way or the other. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals agreed the evidence did not render…
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Appeals court divided over whether La Plata County judge’s illegal sentence is ‘salvageable’
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Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday agreed a La Plata County judge imposed an illegal sentence, but remained divided about whether it should repair the problem itself. In the underlying case, Jacob Daniel John Jost pleaded guilty in 2023 to criminal mischief and received a sentence of two years’ probation. Later that year, he violated his…
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Colorado Supreme Court to decide whether to retreat on landmark restitution ruling
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The Colorado Supreme Court will incorporate an unorthodox twist into its oral argument calendar this week, hearing five cases that all revolve around the same subject: Was the court serious when it said three years ago that judges who do not follow the law lose their authority to order criminal defendants to pay restitution? In…
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Lawyer who brought outside legal information into jury room triggers new sex assault trial
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A man serving a potential life sentence for sexually assaulting a woman will receive a new trial after Colorado’s second-highest court agreed an attorney who served on the jury injected damaging, outside legal information into deliberations. In 2016, a jury convicted Damon D. Newman of raping a woman at gunpoint at Sloan’s Lake. Investigators linked Newman…
