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Colorado court overturns illegal $7,000 restitution order
Colorado’s second-highest court overturned a Weld County defendant’s obligation to pay more than $7,000 in crime victim restitution on Thursday because a trial judge failed to issue a legally compliant restitution order at the time of sentencing. In Colorado, as part of sentencing, judges must consider whether defendants owe financial restitution to their victims. In People…
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Weld County defendant need not turn over ‘all evidence’ of other suspect, Colorado justices rule
A Weld County judge went too far when he ordered the defendant in a murder case to reveal to the prosecution “all evidence” implicating another suspect, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday, while acknowledging some information-sharing is nonetheless appropriate. For more than 40 years, the 1979 murder of Evelyn “Kay” Day in Greeley went unsolved.…