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Appeals judge decries inability for defendant to challenge his ‘three-strikes’ sentence
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A member of Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday registered his discomfort with a defendant’s inability to challenge his lengthy prison sentence that was a product of the state’s “three strikes” law. Obdulio Arvelo is serving 48 years in prison for a 2011 theft-related conviction. The sentence resulted from Arvelo’s designation as a “habitual criminal,” meaning…
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El Paso County child sex assault convictions reversed after appeals court finds errors
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A man convicted of multiple child sex offenses will receive a new trial after Colorado’s second-highest court determined his defense lawyers likely contributed to the guilty verdict by failing to object to damaging testimony about the defendant’s other, uncharged misconduct. An El Paso County jury in 2013 found Daniel C. Oliver guilty of felony sex…
