judge jason carrithers
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Defendant’s ‘train wreck’ of a statement prompts appeals court to order new trial
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Colorado’s second-highest court ordered a new trial on Thursday for a defendant whose 16-minute statement mid-trial, which had no basis in criminal procedure and was described by one judge as a “train wreck,” resulted in a constitutionally unfair proceeding. Jefferson County prosecutors charged Riddick Amoako-Asiamah with large-scale marijuana cultivation or distribution based on the substantial amount…
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Assault, murder convictions reversed in 2 cases for judges’ errors
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Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday reversed two sets of criminal convictions because trial judges gave improper instructions to jurors or incorrectly allowed damaging evidence to be heard. In the first case out of Jefferson County, jurors convicted Clinton Eugene Priest of murdering and assaulting Robert Miller after the two men got into a physical confrontation outside…
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Colorado appeals court revives Jeffco special district’s lawsuit against Jeffco special district
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Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday reinstated a lawsuit between two Lakewood-area special districts and a handful of developers, concluding a Jefferson County judge wrongly ended the high-stakes litigation when he found the terms of a wastewater contract were unenforceable. With over $100 million in damages on the line, a three-judge panel for the Court of…
