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Appeals court says custody dispute must terminate if one parent dies
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Colorado’s second-highest court clarified last month that an unresolved custody dispute must terminate when one parent dies, with the surviving parent automatically receiving custody. A three-judge Court of Appeals panel determined it was a mistake to allow an Adams County custody case between a mother and father to continue after the mother’s death, with the…
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Colorado appeals court, 2-1, reverses sex assault convictions due to testimony about victim’s reaction
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A Boulder County judge was wrong to permit an alleged victim of sex assault and three of her friends or coworkers to testify about how she changed after the disputed rape, Colorado’s second-highest court ruled last month in reversing the defendant’s convictions. By 2-1, a three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals concluded the victim’s…
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Boulder County judge potentially coerced verdict, appeals court finds in reversing convictions
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A Boulder County judge potentially coerced jurors into a verdict when she directed them to keep deliberating even though they were at an impasse, Colorado’s second-highest court ruled last month. When a jury indicates it is deadlocked, judges may advise jurors, in what is known as a “modified-Allen” instruction, to “reexamine your own views” and…
