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El Paso County sex assault conviction overturned after judge misapplied law
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Colorado’s second-highest court reversed a man’s sexual assault conviction last month after finding an El Paso County judge applied the wrong legal standard when assessing whether the defendant was competent to stand trial. Prosecutors charged Micheal Cochran with numerous sex-related offenses, but his defense attorney became concerned that Cochran was struggling to understand the charges,…
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Appeals court says car rental companies can be sued as insurers
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Colorado’s second-highest court clarified last week that car rental companies can be sued as if they were insurance companies when they fail to pay benefits on policies they offer in the course of renting vehicles. After a hit-and-run driver caused two passengers to sustain more than $700,000 in medical bills, they sought payment from the…
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Appeals judge urges lawmakers to revisit careless driving law
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Colorado’s second-highest court agreed on Thursday that state law only authorized a single criminal sentence for a man whose careless driving resulted in the deaths of two people, and not the two sentences a Larimer County judge originally imposed. Judge Steve Bernard, a member of the three-judge Court of Appeals panel that decided the case,…
